About the Book:

Signatures brings together representative sample of work from one hundred modern Indian poets from twenty languages. The poets include Jibanananda Das, Budhadev Bose, Bishnu Dey, Subhash Mukhopadhyay, Shakti Chattopadhyay, Sunil Gangopadhyay, Gopalakrishna Adiga, Chandrasekhara Kambar, Akhtar-Ul-Iman, Ali Sardarjafri, Amrita Pritam, Harbhajan Singh, B.S. Mardhekar, Dilip Chitre, Arun Kolatkar, Ayyappa Paniker, Sri Sri, Ka, Naa. Subramanian, Sitakant Mahapatra, Ramakanta Rath, G.M. Muktibodh, Ajneya,Kedar Nath Singh, Kunwar Narain, Raghuvir Sahay, A.K. Ramanujam, Nissim Ezekiel, Jayanta Mahapatra, Sitanshu Yashaschandra, G.M. Sheikh, Keki Daruwallah, Navakanta Barua, Nilmoni Phookan, Sachi Raut Ray, Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena, Namdeo Dhasal And Vinda Karandikar among others. An ideal textbook for students of modern Indian poetry, an authentic reference work for scholars of comparative literature and an excellent read for the love of poetry.

About the Author

K. Satchidanandand who has edited this volume is a well-known modern Malayalam poet, translator and critic with over 30 volumes of original work and over 15 volumes of poetry in translation to his credit. His work has been extensively translated into English, Russian, Spanish and Serbo-Croatian besides all major Indian languages. Summe Rain, a collection of his poems in English translation was published in 1995. He has represented Indian poetry at several international festivals, edited many anthologies including Gestures, an anthology of South Asian Poetry and won several awards for poetry, criticism and translation. At present he is the secretary of Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments for the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction Jibanananda Das (1899-1954)

Banalata Sen
Night
Naked Solitary Hand
Grass
This Earth

Buddhadev Bose (1908-1974)

My Tower
Frogs
Death By Accident
Poet, Young And Old

Makshdoom Mohiuddin (1908-1969)

The Heart Of Silence
Prison Darkness

Bal Sitaram Mardhekar (1909-56)

The Track Says
But Flowers Still Have A Smell
Altough The Lights
Time Gave A Gental Tap

Bishnu Dey(1909-87)

Birthday
Futile Vigil
So Long Ago
Sonner No. 1
Beyond The Ascent Of The Starving Hill
Fear No More The Darkness

P.S. Rege (1910-78)

The Trees Know Everything
Ajanta
Night Such As This
Hands
Badami Vaisakh 1880

B.B Borkar (1910-84) Anklet Bells
It Is Not Freedom Then Sri Sri (1910-83)

The Bull In The City
Poeme S'il Vous Plait
Three Cheers For Man

Ajneya (S.H. Vatsyayan) (1911-93)

House
Border Check Point
Kalemegdan
Hiroshima
Oedipus At Phocis

Shamsher Bahadur Singh (1911-93)

This Helplessness
A Yellowish Evening
Forlon Is The Road, Sad The Rivulet
Love Come Back O Stream
Even Then Why

Ali Sardar Jafri (1912-2000)

Why Can't Sleep
My Journey
Robe Of Sparks
Silence
A Poem
Negro, My Brother

Ka.Naa. Subramaniam (1912-88)

Experience
Temple Dance
Journey

Akhtar-ul-Iman (1915-96)

The Boy
The Difference
Compromise
Indifference
Tyranny

Sachi Rout Roy (1916)

An Hour's Sea
A Festival Of Fire
The Onlooker
Birhtday

Dina Anth Nadim (1916-88)

Raincoat
The Robber
Mist
Blad Of Grass

Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh (1917-69)

The Orang-Outang
Brahmarakshasa
The Void Within

Vinda Karandikar (1918)

Fierce, Like A Maniac Murder
A Six Beat Rhythm For The Drum
The Wheel
The Insane

M. Gopalakrishna Adiga (1918-92)

Ghosts And Pasts
Song Of The Earth

Amrita Pritam (1919)

I am The Daughter Of The Land Of Dravida
An Incident
The First Book
The First Religion
My Address

Subhas Mukhopadyay (1919-2003)

He Didn't Know
At My Heels
Sunset
Proposal
No Matter How Far

Harbhajan Singh (1920-2002)

Before Parting
Stars And I
Someone Peeks
The Brass Horse
Wall

Narain Shyam (1922-89)

The Glow-Worm's Gleam
An Ode
The Escape
Skirtful Of Sand

Kaifi Azmi (1923-2002)

The Night Of The Apocalypse
Humiliation
Imagination
Don't Visit Me Now, My Love
The Circle

S.R. Ekkundi (1923-95)

The Two Peasants
The Power Of Mantra

Sadanand Rege (1923-82)

Lunatic Lyrics-1
Hourses
Three Poems For Lao-Tze

Guruprasad Mohanty (1924)

A Poem For Baba
The Doves Of My Eyes
Sonnet

Munib-Ur-Rahman (1924)

The Mirror
A Santhal Dance
Telephone
Tall Buildings

Nirendranath Chakravarty (1924)

Death's Hand
Open Fist
Quicksands
On The Battlefield, Easily
Calcutta's Jesus

Nissim Ezekiel(1925)

'Confession'
Shadows
Illusion

B.C. Ramachandra Sharma (1925)

On The Death Of A Friend
Freedom
The Poet

Virendra(1925)

The Birth Of My Son
The Fair

Bhanuji Rao (1926)

Heaven
On Some Days
Digha
Fish

Navakanta Barua (1926-2002)

Two Stanzas For A River
Judas Of The Armenian Miniature
God's Guards
Palestine

N.N Kakkad (1927-87)

Everyday I See
Death Of A Rogue Elephant
Behold These Sheep On The Road

Kunwar Narain (1927)

The Ky To Success
Remaining Human
To Delhi
Horoscope
Ibn Batutah
Off Centre

Mohammad Alvi (1927)

Offer
My Name
The Fourth Firmament
Epitaph
Looking For The Last Day

Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena (1927-83)

Hunger
Dust
Often Some Sorrow
Now I Will Not Let The Sun Set
Waiting

Balraj Komal (1928)

The Circus Horse
Martyr
The Sight Of A City That Called
A Sky Covered With Dust

Jayanta Mahapatra (1928)

Life S igns
Red Roses For Gandhi
Snaskrit
Grand-Father
Living In Orissa

Raghuvir Sahay (1929-90)

Hindi
Privacy
Cycle- Rickshaw
History Of A Bridge
Tocsin
Survival

Ajanta (1929-98)

Slumber
The Crved Line

Ismail (1929)

A Tortoise In The Well
Scents Of The Evening
Boulevards Of Paris
Her Eye In Sleep
The Sunfish

A.K. Ramanujan (1929-93)

Obituary
No Amnesiac King
Second Sight
On Not Learning From Animals
The Guru

G.R. Snatosh (1929-97)

Poem - 1
Poem - 2

K. Ayyappa Paniker (1930)

Horse Play
Passage To America
I Met Walt Whitman Yesterday
Freedom
Philistines

Pasuviya (Sundara Rama Swamy) (1931)

Love's Wings
The Sea Laughed
Life
Challenge
At Kanyakumari

Attor Ravi Varma (1931)

Sitting
Metamorphosis
One's Own
Re-Call

Shrikant Varma (1931-86)

The Justice Of Kashi
Kosala Lacks In Ideas
Process
A Statement For The Press
Last Testament

Arun Kolatkar (1932)

Pictues From A Marathi Alphabet Chart
Old Newspapers
A Prostitute On A Pilgrimage…
Teeth
Suicide Of Rama
Woman

Hiren Bhattacharya (1932)

The Earth, My Poem
Longing For Sunshine
The Dream
Time
The Storm
A Word
These My Words

Sankha Gosh (1932)

Holiday
Name
Earth, Earthen Jar Of Water
The Sleep
Its Lost Voice
Munya

Nilmoni Phooka (1933)

Ecstasy
Suddenly Lost
Only The Sound Of Stillness

Nirmal Prabha Bordoloi (1933)

The One Who Is To Arrive
Songs Of Darkness
Early Dawn Hours
Two Hands

Shakti Chattopadhyay (1933-95)

Death
To Enter The Forest
The Visitor
On My Birhtday
I Must Escape From Perspective
A Day Follows Another
God Lives In The Water

Kamala Das (1934)

The Descendants
An Introduction
Life's Obscure Parallel
My Grandmother's House

Kedarnath Singh (1934)

Banaras
Cranes In The Drought
Things Broken Down Truck

Ramakanta Rath (1934)

Murder On The Agenda
The Portrait
"Sriradha" (An Excerpt)
The Soldier In Exile

Sunil Gangopadhyaya (1934)

Neera's Illness
City Of Memories 13
Beside Love
Captive, Are You Awake?
In Solitary Midnight

Kadammanitta Ramakrishnan (1935)

Boiled Eggs.
Feline Fancies
The Lucky Ones

J.P. Das (1936)

The Corpse
The Ruins
The Dream

Dhumil (1936-75)

My Story
The Cobbler

Shahryar (1936)

The Gateway To Dreams Is Closed
Somuch Light
A Black Poem
A Few Rays Worth Of Sun
For Those Who Have Given Up Dreaming
We Too Could Have Seen

Chandrasekhara Kambar (1937)

For Haridas
Delhi
Father In Dream
Mahabalipurma

Keki N. Daruwallah (1937)

Of Mohanjo Daro At Oxford
Crossing Of Rivers
Bird Eclipse
Living On Hyphens

Sitakant Mahapatra (1937)

Death Of Krishna
Time Does Not Fly
The Other View: Yashoda's Soliloquy

Vinodkumar Shukla (1937)

Those That Will Never Come To My Home
It Affirms That There Is A Child
The Deer Is Swift
One Should See One's Own Home From Far Off
While Discussing The Political Significance Of Drought

Dilip Chitre (1938)

The Eyes Of Bandu Waze
Private Poem In A Public Garden
Change

Gnanakoothan (1938)

My Little World
The Son Complaints To His Mother
Untitled
Tamil
The Night Jasmine

Nabaneeta Deb Sen (1938)

One Day Like Gregor Samsa
The Real Thing
Nocturnal Call
The Lie
Gain
Fig Tree

Ravji Patel (1939-68)

Whirlwind
Crowd
At Last
A Quiet…
During The Moving Moments Of Loneliness
The Saffron Suns…

Nida Fazli(1940)

The Third Man
Prayers For The Dead
The Distant Star
The Bridge Of Words

Padma Sachdev (1940) Moment Of Courage
Life
Transit Camp
Pain
Bondless Evening Ashok Vajpeyi (1941)

The Word
A Song Of Spring
The Nude In The Sky
Metaphors Of Love
Space For Love-2
Words And Leaves
After The End-2

Sitanshu Yashaschandra (1941)

Sear Horses
The Sea
Orpheus
Under Stones

Sobhagya Kumar Misra (1941)

The Garden Keeper's Song
The Stone

Mohan Alok (1942)

Well, Why Do We…
Again…
A Piercing Cry…

Surjit Patar(1945)

As I Was About To Touch You…
My Sunshine
The Return Home

K. Satchidanandan (1946)

Genesis
Gandhi And Poetry
How To Go To The Tao Temple
Stammer
The Drum

K.G. Sankara Pillai (1947)

Who Else Is There To Come?
Photos In Various Poses
Between The Nectar And The Poison

Arvind Krishna Mehrotra (1947)

Borges
The Exquisite Corpse
The Photograph
Engraving Of A Bison On Stone
Dry Farming
Let's Face It

Mangalesh Dabral (1948)

Words
Poem Of Dreams
Poem Of Paper
The Quiet House
Outside
City

Agha Shahid Ali (1949-2001)

Farewell
Son Et Lumiere At Shalimar Garden
Ghazal
A Villanelle

Namdeo Dhasal (1949)

Mandakini Patil
Fever
Stone-Masons, My Father And Me

Yumlembam Ibomchasingh (1949)

The Next Birth
Metamorphosis Of A Puppy
Fish And Women

Pash(1950-88)

The Most Dangerous Thing
No, I Am Not Losig My Sleep
Every One Doesn't Have…
When Revolt Rages Wild

Meena Alexander (1951)

Deer Park At Saranath
House Of A Thousand Doors
Natural Difficulties
Lost Language

Siddalingaiah (1954)

My People
I Must Have A Word With You
I Saw My Beloved

Joy Goswami (1954)

To The Remotest Star I Speak
The Funeral Song
The Frozen Plant

H.S. Shivaprakash (1954)

Ambapali
Rikyu

Savitri Rajeevan (1955)

The Slant
The Window
The Idol
The Body

Anuradha Mahapatra (1957)

God
Platform On Stilts
Bestial
Cow And Grand Mother

Balachandran Chullikkad(1957)

Freedom
Ghazal
A Labourer's Laughter

A. Jayaprabha (1957)

Silence
Loneliness
The Girl

Pravasini Mahakud (1957)

The Voice Of Loneliness
Before Anyone Comes

Sukumaran (1957)

Inspired By Music
Summer Notes-5
Here Am I

Bhujang Meshram (1958)

About Their Speech
Being
Winds

Gagan Gill (1962)

Elegy For Kanjika
Days Of The Dead
Threse Sisters
The Tunnel

Nilim Kumar (1962)

Guwahati
We Both Felt Very Lonely
Poem-1
Snow
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