Modern Indian poetry in English
/ Bruce King
- revised ed.
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007
- x, 416 p.
introduction; History and publishing circles; the poets, their readers and the market; towards a canon; poetics and criticism; ezekiel and his influence; the poet's India i: ezekiel, ramanujan, patel, daruwalla, shiv kumar; the opet's India II: peeradina, rodriues, de souza, shetty, silgardo; women's voices: kamala das, de souza, silgardo; two bilingual experimentalists kolatkar and chitre; experimentalists II: mehrotra and mahapatra; exile: ramanujan, sharat chandra, kumar, nazareth, seth and return: parthasarathy and jussawalla; the diaspora: agha shahid ali's tricultural nostalgia; publishing 1987-99; maturity: moraes, peeradina, ramanujan, patel, shettay, mehrotra, daruwalla, de souza, alexander; new women poets: shivdasani, patel, D'souza, sambrani, dharker, divakaruni, bhatt; new poets, styles, and feelings: hoskote, thyil, surendran, nambisan, merchant, roa, padhi, khair, prasad, ramakrishnan; chronology of singnificant publications, journals and events, 1947-99 life and career details of some poets; anthologies, publishers and awards; important authologized poems; index