Nine Indian Women Poets An Anthology

by de Souza, Eunice

• ISBN13: 9780195640779
• ISBN10: 0195640772
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780195658477
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-01-08
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This anthology covers nine Indian women poets writing in English. Edited by the poet and academic Eunice de Souza, it brings together poems which are witty, ironic, poignant and technically assured. The book includes a general introduction and critical appraisals of each poet.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION	1	(6)
KAMALA DAS	7	(11)
From Summer in Calcutta An Introduction	10	(1)
From The Descendants	11	(4)
The Descendants	11	(1)
Luminol	12	(1)
The Doubt	12	(1)
The Maggots	13	(1)
Three P. M.	13	(1)
The Joss-sticks at Cadell Road	14	(1)
The Looking Glass	15	(1)
From The Old Playhouse and Other Poems	15	(3)
The Old Playhouse	15	(1)
The Stone Age	16	(2)
MAMTA KALLA	18	(9)
From Tribute to Papa and Other Poems	20	(5)
Tribute to Papa	20	(1)
Sheer Good Luck	21	(1)
Compulsions	21	(1)
Made for Each Other	22	(1)
Sunday Song	22	(2)
Brat	24	(1)
Dubious Lovers	24	(1)
Positive Thinking	25	(1)
From Poems '78 After Eight Years of Marriage	25	(1)
From Hers Anonymous	26	(1)
MELANIE SILGARDO	27	(10)
From Three Poets	29	(4)
1956-1976 A Poem	29	(1)
Stationary Stop	29	(1)
Child	30	(1)
For Father on the Shelf	31	(2)
The Earthworm's Story	33	(1)
From Skies of Design	33	(4)
Do Not Tell the Children	33	(1)
Skies of Design	34	(1)
Doris	34	(1)
Cat	35	(1)
Bird Broken	36	(1)
EUNICE DE SOUZA	37	(11)
From Fix	39	(3)
Catholic Mother	39	(1)
Miss Louise	39	(1)
For a Child, Not Clever	40	(1)
Autobiographical	41	(1)
From Women in Dutch Painting	42	(1)
Pilgrim	42	(1)
The Road	43	(1)
From Ways of Belonging Bequest	43	(1)
From Selected and New Poems	44	(4)
Landscape	44	(2)
Outside Jaisalmer	46	(1)
It's Time to Find a Place	47	(1)
IMTIAZ DHARKER	48	(12)
From Purdah	50	(3)
Purdah I	50	(1)
Battle-line	51	(2)
From Postcards from god	53	(7)
Words Find Mouths	53	(1)
Living Space	54	(1)
Eggplant	55	(1)
Namesake	55	(1)
8 January 1993	56	(1)
The List	57	(1)
Minority	58	(2)
SMITA AGARWAL	60	(9)
From `Glitch'	62	(7)
The Lie of the Land: A Letter to Chatwin	62	(1)
The Salesman	63	(1)
The Planetoid	63	(1)
Daywatch in the Scriptorium	64	(1)
The Word-worker	65	(1)
A Grass Widow's Prayer	65	(1)
Mediatrix	66	(1)
`Our foster-nurse of nature is repose'	67	(1)
Discord	67	(2)
SUJATA BHATT	69	(13)
From Brunizem	73	(5)
The Peacock	73	(1)
For Paula Modersohn-Becker 1876-1907	74	(1)
The Women of Leh are such --	75	(1)
A Different History	75	(1)
Something for Plato	76	(1)
Iris	77	(1)
From Monkey Shadows	78	(6)
White Asparagus	78	(1)
Kankaria Lake	79	(3)
CHARMAYNE D'SOUZA	82	(7)
From A Spelling Guide to Woman	84	(5)
When God First Made a Whore	84	(1)
The White Line Down the Road to Minnesota	85	(1)
I Would Like to Have a Movie Cowboy for a Husband	86	(1)
Strange Bedfellows	86	(1)
God's Will?	87	(1)
Judith	88	(1)
TARA PATEL	89	(6)
From Single Woman	90	(5)
Woman	90	(1)
Request	90	(1)
Calangute Beach, Goa II	91	(1)
In Bombay	92	(1)
In a Working Women's Hostel	93	(2)
Index of First Lines	95