Research Catalog

Title

Arvind Krishna Mehrotra : selected poems and translations / Arvind Krishna Mehrotra ; selected by Vidyan Ravinthiran ; introduction by Amit Chaudhuri.

Author

Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna, 1947-

Publication

• New York : New York Review Books, [2020]
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

• Chaudhuri, Amit, 1962-
• Ravinthiran, Vidyan

Description

xli, 220 pages; 18 cm.

Summary

"Gathering the work of a lifetime, spanning four books of poetry and including thirty-four new poems, this is the first comprehensive collection to be published in the United States and the United Kingdom of the work of one of India's most influential English-language poets. Arvind Krishna Mehrotra's poetry has long been known for its mixing of the commonplace and the strange, the autobiographical and the fabulous, in which the insignificant details of everyday life-whether contemporary or historical-bring larger patterns into focus. His celebrated translations from Indian languages (Prakrit, Hindi, Gujarati, Bengali) take up a third of Collected Poems. Selections from The Absent Traveller and Songs of Kabir are followed by those of Nirala, Vinod Kumar Shukla, Mangalesh Dabral, Pavankumar Jain, and Shakti Chattopadhyay. Together they tell the story of Indian poetry over two millennia"--

Series Statement

NYRB/poets

Uniform Title

• Poems. Selections
• New York Review Books poets.

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

• Poetry

Genre/Form

Poetry.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-220).

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Uncollected Poems 1972-1974 -- Fantomas -- Ballad of the Black Feringhee -- From Nine Enclosures (1976) -- Songs of the Ganga -- The Sale -- Songs of the Good Surrealist -- Index of First Lines -- Continuities -- From Distance In Statute Miles (1982) -- Letter to a Friend -- Canticle for My Son -- January -- Distance in Statute Miles -- Where Will the Next One Come From -- Two Lakes -- Company Period -- On the Death of a Sunday Painter -- From Middle Earth (1984) -- Bhojpuri Descant -- The Cotton Tree -- The Roys -- Uncollected Poems 1985-1995 -- Bad for Verse -- From The Transfiguring Places (1998) -- Approaching Fifty -- Borges -- Inscription -- The Storm -- Ramapithecus and I -- Summer Notes -- Old Survey Road -- The House -- The Photograph -- The Fracture -- Dream-Figures in Sunlight -- The Vase That Is Marriage -- To an Unborn Daughter -- Chekov Retold -- The Reading Room -- The Cartographer -- New Poems 1999-2019 -- A Hindu Panegyrist Remembers Sultan Mahmud -- Bharati Bhavan Library, Chowk, Allahabad -- Ironing Lady -- Ear-Cleaning Man -- Death in an Art Deco House -- Washing Tub -- The Sting in the Tail -- The Meal -- Number 16 -- In a Greek City -- Implements -- Hoopoe -- My Father's Tootal Ties -- My Mother's New Bras -- Paradise Flycatcher -- Worker Ant -- Squirrel -- The Nulla-Nulla in Nullah -- Elegy for E -- Shyamalda -- Daughters of Jacob Bridge -- Java Plum's Song -- Daughters of Jacob Bridge -- Half Anna Red -- Bhilai Steel Plant -- "I don't have" -- Witch Hunt -- Allahabad -- Provinces -- Novel for Breakfast -- Cluster Fig -- For Sale or Rent -- Bird Calls -- Common Leopard -- Munnar -- Potter's Mark -- From a River Island -- Kumbh Mela -- Paving Stones -- Grasshopper's Song -- Health Bulletin from 6,000 Feet -- Ranikhet -- Government Nursery -- To a Young Teak -- Brass Urn with Dimple Pinch -- Mudapple -- Loved Ones -- Aligarh -- "Above the bamboo stand" -- Woman Reading -- Allahabad-Dehra Dun -- Paris 1 -- Paris 2 -- Well of Laughter, Well of Tears -- Fragment -- "It is the rains" -- Far East -- After Reading Po Chu-i -- A Heian Diary -- At the Butcher's -- When a Mountain Wears Down -- Two Untitled Poems -- Dehra Dun -- Herat -- Translations -- From The Absent Traveller (1991) -- from Songs Of Kabir (2011) -- Uncollected Translations -- Nirala -- Breaking Stones -- Little Princess, or The One-Eyed Girl -- "Those whose heart's thatch" -- "There was mist" -- "The king got away" -- Betrayal -- Shakti Chattopadhyay -- "A memory comes back" -- Zuleika Dobson -- Vinod Kumai Shukla -- "That man put on a new woollen coat ..." -- "Turning to the drought" -- "It feels nice" -- "This colourful picture" -- "The way the sun was going down" -- "This year too in the plains" -- Pavankumar fain -- Stroller -- Mangalesh Dabral -- Poem of Dreams -- Poem of Paper.

Call Number

JFC 20-573

ISBN

• 9781681374017
• 1681374013
• 9781681374024 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019039474

OCLC

1085166422

Author

Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna, 1947- author.

Title

Arvind Krishna Mehrotra : selected poems and translations / Arvind Krishna Mehrotra ; selected by Vidyan Ravinthiran ; introduction by Amit Chaudhuri.

Publisher

New York : New York Review Books, [2020]

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

NYRB/poets

New York Review Books poets.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-220).

Added Author

Chaudhuri, Amit, 1962- writer of introduction.

Ravinthiran, Vidyan, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna, 1947- Arvind Krishna Mehrotra New York City : New York Review Books, 2019. 9781681374024 (DLC) 2019039475

Research Call Number

JFC 20-573