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The Maharani's New Wall and Other Poems.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ray, David
- Series:
- Wesleyan poetry.
- Wesleyan poetry
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century.
- American poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Middletown : Wesleyan University Press, 1989.
- Summary:
- "Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, these poems written in India confront a variety of cultural issues and an American's response to places, rituals, individuals and historical figures. The dramatic title poem, which could serve for a movie script, deals with a Maharani's building a great wall which shuts peasants out of their ancestral territory"-- Synopsis from Abe Books website, viewed November 3, 2022.
- Contents:
- Two before the temple
- Chat with a holy man
- My rooftop room
- Jaipur
- hash
- Statue of Gandhiji
- By a lake near Jaipur
- Rooftop room
- Unauthorized colonies
- Maharani's new wall
- Optometrist
- Purdah
- Sociology
- Funeral procession
- Peacocks
- Family
- Elysium in the halls of Hell
- Progress of the soul
- Address to a child
- Well in India
- Villagers
- Hundred-year-old scotch in Rajasthan
- Roadmenders
- Armory
- Little incident
- Human donkey
- Grapes of wrath
- Near the red fort
- Bus from Delhi
- Peasant girl
- In Bombay
- Mammalapuram
- At a fortress in India
- Ganges at dawn
- Rickshaw wallah told us
- Agra near the Taj
- Tour group
- Yama
- Ajanta
- Caves
- Heroes
- At the hill station
- Lovers
- Leaving
- Back home
- Lobster
- Rickshaw wallahs
- Gas cylinder
- Three prayers : after Tagore
- Razor's edge.
- Notes:
- Preliminaries omitted.
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