You Can’t Close Your Eyes for a Sec Arvind Krishna Mehrotra

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction 1
5. “A slave and worshiper at love’s doorstep” Mir Taqi Mir 21
6. Censorship and the Role of the Poet in the Work of Ana Blandiana 30
7. At Home or Nowhere: A. K. Ramanujan 40
8. Your Thorns Are the Best Part of Yo: Marianne Moore and Stevie Smith 55
9. Eunice de Souza and Indian Speech 77
10. “Emmental freedom” Czesław Miłosz 90
11. “There must be something to say” On Verse Sound 100
12. Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Penn Warren, Cleanth Brooks, Communication, and Other People 111
13. Ted Hughes, Keith Sagar, and the Poetics of Letter Prose 129
14. Rae Armantrout’s Lonely Dream 141
15. Dreaming the World Vinod Kumar Shukla’s Extraordinary Sentences 154
16. Srinivas Rayaprol and Gāmini Salgādo 168
17. You Can’t Close Your Eyes for a Sec Arvind Krishna Mehrotra 184
18. Thom Gunn’s Shadows Hard as Board 194
19. Galway Kinnell, Trying to Become Winged 206
20. A. R. Ammons and “the political (read, human) world” 218
21. Postlyric and the Already Known: Dawn Lundy Martin 228
22. “I am not speaking of or as myself or for any/one” Vahni (Anthony) Capildeo 243
23. Bibliography 259
24. Permissions 263
25. Index 265