Nine Indian Women Poets An Anthology

by de Souza, Eunice

• ISBN13: 9780195658477
• ISBN10: 0195658477
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-11-29
• 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	p. 1
An Introduction	p. 10
The Descendants	p. 11
Luminol	p. 12
The Doubt	p. 12
The Maggots	p. 13
Three P.M.	p. 13
The Joss-sticks at Cadell Road	p. 14
The Looking Glass	p. 15
The Old Playhouse	p. 15
The Stone Age	p. 16
Tribute to Papa	p. 20
Sheer Good Luck	p. 21
Compulsions	p. 21
Made for Each Other	p. 22
Sunday Song	p. 22
Brat	p. 24
Dubious Lovers	p. 24
Positive Thinking	p. 25
After Eight Years of Marriage	p. 25
Anonymous	p. 26
1956-1976 A Poem	p. 29
Stationary Stop	p. 29
Child	p. 30
For Father on the Shelf	p. 31
The Earthworm's Story	p. 33
Do Not Tell the Children	p. 33
Skies of Design	p. 34
Doris	p. 34
Cat	p. 35
Bird Broken	p. 36
Catholic Mother	p. 39
Miss Louise	p. 39
For a Child, Not Clever	p. 40
Autobiographical	p. 41
Pilgrim	p. 42
The Road	p. 43
Bequest	p. 43
Landscape	p. 44
Outside Jaisalmer	p. 46
It's Time to Find a Place	p. 47
Purdah I	p. 50
Battle-line	p. 51
Words Find Mouths	p. 53
Living Space	p. 54
Eggplant	p. 55
Namesake	p. 55
8 January 1993	p. 56
The List	p. 57
Minority	p. 58
The Lie of the Land: A Letter to Chatwin	p. 62
The Salesman	p. 63
The Planetoid	p. 63
Daywatch in the Scriptorium	p. 64
The Word-worker	p. 65
A Grass Widow's Prayer	p. 65
Mediatrix	p. 66
'Our foster-nurse of nature is repose'	p. 67
Discord	p. 67
The Peacock	p. 73
For Paula Modersohn-Becker 1876-1907	p. 74
The Women of Leh are such -	p. 75
A Different History	p. 75
Something for Plato	p. 76
Iris	p. 77
White Asparagus	p. 78
Kankaria Lake	p. 79
When God First Made a Whore	p. 84
The White Line Down the Road to Minnesota	p. 85
I Would Like to Have a Movie Cowboy for a Husband	p. 86
Strange Bedfellows	p. 86
God's Will?	p. 87
Judith	p. 88
Woman	p. 90
Request	p. 90
Calangute Beach, Goa II	p. 91
In Bombay	p. 92
In a Working Women's Hostel	p. 93
Index of First Lines	p. 95
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