100 More Great Indian Poems

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Copyright
Contents
Editor’s Note
1. After the Curfew
2. Again Snowfall
3. A Love Poem from India: Author’s Consent
4. Alphabets
5. A Marvel
6. And Death Demands a Labor
7. A New Way of Waiting
8. An Asian Child Enters a British Classroom 9
9. An Invitation
10. An Orange
11. Apparition on the River Bank
12. Ashtavakra Gita Ch-1
13. Bardic Stuff
14. Beggar
15. Birthplace with Buried Stones
16. Buddha on the Highway
17. City of Memories
19. Daring
20. Day After Day
21. Deception
22. Do Not Ask
23. Dothead
24. Epitaph
25. Exile
26. Eyes
27. Farewell
28. Forest Ballads
29. Frogs
30. Girls on Rooftops
31. God
32. Here Comes God
33. History of Justice
34. How Can a River Reject its Fish?
35. Ice Cubes, Cake & Roti
36. I have Brought the Sacrificial Goat
37. Imaginary Number
38. Incurable
39. In the Dust Forever
40. In the Event of Change
41. I Wear My Wordlessness
42. Jaisalmer – IV
43. Let Loose the Stinging Bees
44. Lineage
45. Love is Everyday New and Fresh
46. Making Love to Her
47. Meditations on Desire
48. Momin
49. Monsoon Poem
50. Mountain Child
51. My Eight-anna Coin
52. My Sister’s Bible
53. Need
54. Negro, My Brother
55. Night’s Golden Wineglasses
56. No, I Am not Losing My Sleep
57. Only a Connoisseur
58. Only One Face
59. Pigeons
60. Portrait
61. Prayer
62. Rāghavapāṇḍavīya
63. Rumi and the Reed
64. Satyabhama
65. Shadow
66. Silhouette
67. Sita’s Tears
68. Son to Mother
69. Summer Afternoon
70. Terms of Seeing
71. The Art of Courtesan
72. The Battlefield
73. The Corpse
74. The Cowherd’s Daughter
75. The Difference
76. The Evening
77. The Glow-Worm’s Gleam
78. The Insane
79. The Need to Travel
80. The New Man
81. The Orientalist
82. The Sleep
83. The Way
84. They Burnt My Father and Grandfather
85. Thirst
86. Things of Beauty
87. This Helplessness
88. Tibet
89. Time
90. To Her Besties
91. What Blue Is
92. What Frenzy is this?
93. When it Rains in Dharamshala
94. While I Slept
95. Whirlwind
96. Why Marry?
97. Winter
98. You are That
99. Your Thoughts
100. Your Trust
Acknowledgements
Permissions Acknowledgments
Poets
Translators
Poets Index