Arvind Krishna Mehrotra by Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Biographical Notes Copyright and Other Information Title Page Contents Introduction Editor’s 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 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 Chü-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 Kumar Shukla

“That man put on a new woollen coat and went away like a thought” “Turning to the drought” “It feels nice” “This colourful picture” “The way the sun was going down” “This year too in the plains”

Pavankumar Jain

Stroller

Mangalesh Dabral

Poem of Dreams Poem of Paper

Notes Acknowledgments

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