Modern Indian Poetry in English

KING, BRUCE^l^lFeaturingNissim Ezekiel A K Ramanujan Tara Patel Keki Daruwalla Shiv Kumar Saleem Peeradina Santan Rodrigues Eunice de Souza Manohar Shetty Melanie Silgardo Kamala Das Arun Kolatkar Dilip Chitre Sharat Chandra Shiv Kumar H O Nazareth Vikram Seth R Parthasarathy Adil Jussawalla Agha Shahid Ali Dom Moraes Gieve Patel Arvind Krishna Mehrotra Meena Alexander Menka Shivdasani Charmayne D'Souza Mukta Sambrani Imtiaz Dharker Chitra Banerjee Divakurni Sujata Bhatt Ranjit Hoskote C P Surendran Vijay Nambisan Hoshang Merchant R Raj Rao Bibhu Padhi Tabish Khair G J V Prasad E V Ramakrishnan Jeet Thayil Jayanta Mahapatra

• INTRODUCTION; HISTORY AND PUBLISHING CIRCLES; THE POETS, THEIR READERS AND THE MARKET; TOWARDS A CANON; POETICS AND CRITICISM; EZEKIEL AND HIS INFLUENCE; THE POETS INDIA I: EZEKIEL, RAMANUJAN, PATEL, DARUWALLA, SHIV KUMAR; THE POET'S INDIA II; PEERADINA, RODRIGUES, DE SOUZA, SHETTY, SILGARDO; WOMEN'S VOICES: KAMALA DAS, DE SOUZA, SILGARDO; TWO BILINGUAL EXPERIMENTALISTS: KOLATKAR AND CHITRE; EXPERIMENTALISTS II: MEHTOTRA AND MAHAPATRA; EXILE: RAMANUJAN, SHARAT CHANDRA, KUMAR, NAZARETH, SETH; AND RETURN: PARTHASARATHY AND JUSSAWALLA; PART 2: THE DISAPORA: AGHA SHAHID ALI'S TRICULTURAL NOSTALGIA; PUBLISHING 1987-99; MATURITY: MORAES, PEERADINA, RAMANUJAN, PATEL, SHETTY, MEHROTRA, DARUWALLA, DE SOUZA, ALEXANDER; NEW WOMEN POETS: SHIVDASANI, PATEL, D'SOUZA, SAMBRANI, DHARKER, DIVAKARUNI, BHATT; NEW POETS, STYLES, AND FEELINGS: HOSKOTE, THAYIL, SURENDRAN, NAMBISAN, MERCHANT, RAO, PADHI, KHAIR, PRASAD, RAMAKRISHNAN; CHRONOLOGY OF SIGNIFICANT PUBLICATIONS, JOURNALS AND EVENTS, 1947-99; CHART; I: LIFE AND CAREER DETAILS OF SOME POETS; CHART 2: ANTHOLOGIES, PUBLISHERS AND AWARDS, CHART 3: IMPORTANT ANTHOLOGIZED POEMS; INDEX

Bruce King maps uncharted territory,...provides ideas toward a poetics of Indian poetry in English, analyses poets in dialectical sets, summarizes poetic obsessions...King surveys, judges, informs, and provokes.