{"product_id":"talking-poems-conversations-with-poets-idd652","title":"Talking Poems (Conversations with Poets)","description":"\u003ch2 class=\"title is-size-3-desktop is-size-5-touch has-text-centered product-details-description-title\"\u003eBook Specification\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ctable\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eItem Code:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003eIDD652\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/es\/book-author\/eunice%20de%20souza\" class=\"underlined\" title=\"Eunice de Souza\"\u003eEunice de Souza\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/es\/book-publisher\/oxford%20university%20press%20new%20delhi\" class=\"underlined\" title=\"Oxford University Press, New Delhi\"\u003eOxford University Press, New Delhi\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003eEnglish\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eEdition:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e2002\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eISBN:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e0195647823\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003ePages:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e142(B \u0026amp; W Illus: 11)\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eCover:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003eHardcover\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eOther Details\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd rel=\"product-dimensions\"\u003e8.7\" X 5.7\"\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003c\/table\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch2 class=\"title is-size-3-desktop is-size-5-touch has-text-centered product-details-description-title\"\u003eBook Description\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"product-details-description\" style=\"max-height: 63rem; overflow-y: auto;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAbout the Book:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e When you write about your feelings, it is authentic. When I write about your people I don't feel fulfilled as a writer: I don't find my face floating above the words \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e I use my body in assessing my lines. If they give me goose-flesh I use them. If they do nothing to my skin I don't touch them. They will be dead lines, like dead skin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e For Kamala Das the most important quality for creativity is authenticity. Mamta Kalia thinks of creativity as 'a lone man's battle against the enormous uncertainty of this universe'. Nissim Ezekiel has 'always taken the idea of waiting for a poem seriously ', and for Arvind \u003ca href=\"\/es\/article\/lord-krishna\"\u003eKrishna\u003c\/a\u003e Mehrotra 'a poet is someone who gets up every morning with the terrible feeling that he's never going to write another poem'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e In this book of conversations with eminent Indian poets writing in English, the first of its kind, Nissim Ezekiel, Arun Kolatkar, Kamala Das, Keki Daruwalla, Mamta Kalia, Adil Jussawalla, Gieve Patel, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Imtiaz Dharker and Melanie Silgardo provoke, analyse, meditate. The in-depth interviews with Eunice de Souza cover background, beliefs, ideas about poetry, each poet's development and other work done such as translations and plays. The book includes biographical notes on the poets as well as brief discussions of their work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eEunice de Souza\u003c\/b\u003e, a distinguished poet, is Head of the Department of English at St Xavier's College, Mumbai. Her publications include four books of poems - Fix, 1979; \u003ci\u003eWomen in Dutch Painting\u003c\/i\u003e, 1988; \u003ci\u003eWays of Belonging\u003c\/i\u003e, 1990; \u003ci\u003eSelected New Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, 1994 - criticism, book reviews and four books of folktales for children. She is the co-editor of \u003ci\u003eStatements\u003c\/i\u003e (1976) and the editor of Nine Indian Women Poets: An Anthology (OUP, 1997).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003cb\u003eContents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e NISSIM EZEKIEL\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ARUN KOLATKAR\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e KAMALA DAS\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e KEKI DARUWALLA\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e MAMTA KALIA\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ADIL JUSSAWALLA\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e GIEVE PATEL\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ARVIND KRISHNA MEHROTRA\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e IMTIAZ DHARKER\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e MELANIE SILGARDO\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Occultnthings","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44619426267437,"sku":"IDD652","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2094\/2117\/products\/talking_poems_conversations_with_poets_idd652.jpg?v=1677759454","url":"https:\/\/occultnthings.com\/es\/products\/talking-poems-conversations-with-poets-idd652","provider":"Occult-N-Things","version":"1.0","type":"link"}