About the Book
Since its first publication, this book has become the most widely accepted and utilized anthology of modern Indian poetry in English. Compiled by R. Parthasarathy, himself an eminent writer and poet who has contributed to this volume, it carries verse by the country's best-known poets: A. K. Ramanujan, Nissim Ezekiel, Kamala Das, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Keki Daruwalla, Gieve Patel, Arun Kolatkar, Jayanta Mahapatra and Shiv K. Kumar, as well as brief introductory notes on each of them.
Excerpts for Reviews
'If anyone wants to know who the leading Indian poets are and what they write, this will henceforth be the obvious book to read.
-Indian Book Chronicle, Delhi
'This refreshing anthology is recommended to readers interested in the state of contemporary poetry. It introduces a new coinage.'
-British Book News
I should like to thank all the poets in this book for their kindness in allowing me to reprint from their published works and to look over their unpublished manuscripts. Their generosity has made this book possible. My thanks are due to the publishers and the editors of the periodicals, where some of the poems first appeard, for permission to reprint.
It has been a great pleasure to discuss this book in the making with friends, and I am indebted to Nimmim Ezekiel, Roger Iredale, S.Krishnan, Shiv K. Kumar, Jayanta Mahapatra, C.D. Narasimhaiah, K.Ayyappa Paniker, A. K. Ramanujan and M. Sivaram-Krishna for reading the book in manuscripts, offering suggestions and for their continuing help and co-operation.
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
KEKI N. DARUWALLA from Under Orion, 1970: from The Epileptic The Ghaghra in Spate from Ruminations from Apparition in April, 1971 Fire-Hymn Routine From Crossing of Rivers, 1976: Death of a Bird
KAMALA DAS from summer in Calcutta, 1965: The Freaks My Grandmother's House A Hot Noon in Malabar The Sunshine Cat from The Descendants. 1967: The Invitation The Looking-glass
NISSIM EZEKIEL from the Unfinished Man, 1960 Enterprise From The Exact Name, 1965: Philosophy Night of the Scorpion Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher The Visitor from Hymns in Darkness, 1976: Background, Casually Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S. Poem of the Separation
ARUN KOLATKAR From MS: the boatride form Jejuri, 1976
SHIV K. KUMAR from cobwebs in the Sun, 1974: Indian Women My Co-respondent Pilgrimage from Subterfuges, 1976: Days in New York Kali
JAYANTA MAHAPATRA from A Rain of Rites, 1976: Indian Summer A Missing Person The Whorehouse in a Calcutta Street from MS: The Logic Grass Lost
ARVIND KRISHNA MEHROTRA from Middle Earth, 1984: The Sale Continuities A Letter to a Friend from Nine Enclosures, 1976: Remarks of an Early Biographer
R. PARTHASARATHY from Rough Passage, 1977 from Exile from Trial from Homecoming
GIEVE PATEL from Poems, 1966: On Killing a Tree Servants Nargol Naryal Purnima from How Do You Withstand, Body, 1976: Commerce O My Very Own Cadaver A. K. RAMANUJAN from The Striders, 1966: Looking for a Cousin on a Swing A River from Relations, 1971: Of Mothers, among Other Things Love Poem for a Wife Small-scale Reflections on a Great House Obituary SELECT READING LIST
INDEX OF TITLES
INDEX OF FIRST LINE
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