The Oxford India anthology of twelve modern Indian poets / chosen and edited by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-174) and indexes.

Nissim Ezekiel -- A Poem of Dedication -- My Cat -- For Love's Record -- Case Study -- Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher -- Paradise Flycatcher -- Two Images -- After Reading a Prediction -- Jayanta Mahapatra -- A Rain of Rites -- I Hear My Fingers Sadly Touching an Ivory Key -- Hunger -- Hands -- The Moon Moments -- A Kind of Happiness -- The Door -- The Abandoned British Cemetery at Balasore -- The Captive Air of Chandipur-on-Sea -- Of that Love -- The Vase -- Days -- Waiting -- A. K. Ramanujan -- The Striders -- Breaded Fish -- Looking for a Cousin on a Swing -- Self-Portrait -- Anxiety -- Case History -- Love Poem for a Wife. 2 -- The Hindoo: the Only Risk -- Snakes and Ladders -- On the Death of a Poem -- Highway Stripper -- Moulting -- Chicago Zen -- Arun Kolatkar -- Woman -- Suicide of Rama -- Irani Restaurant Bombay -- Crabs -- Biograph -- The Bus -- Heart of Ruin -- Chaitanya -- A Low Temple -- The Pattern -- The Horseshoe Shrine -- Manohar -- Chaitanya -- The Butterfly -- A Scratch.

Ajamil and the Tigers -- Chaitanya -- Between Jejuri and the Railway Station -- The Railway Station -- Keki N. Daruwalla -- Hawk -- The King Speaks to the Scribe -- The Unrest of Desire -- Wolf -- Fish are Speared by Night -- Chinar -- Night Fishing -- Dom Moraes -- Autobiography -- Words to a Boy -- Two from Israel -- Prophet -- Key -- VII. Library -- Sinbad -- I. The word works. The world doesn't -- IV. What is this adrift from Chile -- VI. On my stele, mark colours -- VII. She in her youth arose -- VIII. Time and the river, aflame -- X. Floes creak out of the north -- Future Plans -- Dilip Chitre -- The Light of Birds Breaks the Lunatic's Sleep -- 2. I came in the middle of my life to a -- 5. The door I was afraid to open -- 7. All I hear is the fraying of the wind -- 8. I woke up and looked at my empty white bed -- 19. Where can I hide now in this -- 21. O quick knives curving into the core -- In Limbo -- Pushing a Cart -- Of Garlic and Such -- The Felling of the Banyan Tree.

Father Returning Home -- Panhala -- Eunice De Souza -- Feeding the Poor at Christmas -- Sweet Sixteen -- Miss Louise -- Forgive Me, Mother -- For My Father, Dead Young -- de Souza Prabhu -- Women in Dutch Painting -- She and I -- Eunice -- Advice to Women -- For Rita's Daughter, Just Born -- III. Meeting Poets -- Adil Jussawalla -- Land's End -- Evening on a Mountain -- Halt X -- Bats -- I.3. A-----'s a giggle now -- I.6. Black vamps break out of hell -- I.7. In a brief clearing -- I.9. He travels the way of devotion -- I.13. Less time for kicks -- II.1. No Satan -- II.2. His hands were slavish -- II.5. Few either/ors -- Nine Poems on Arrival -- Freedom Song -- Connection -- Agha Shahid Ali -- Postcard from Kashmir -- Snowmen -- Cracked Portraits -- The Dacca Gauzes -- The Season of the Plains -- The Previous Occupant -- Vikram Seth -- Guest -- The Humble Administrator's Garden -- Evening Wheat -- The Accountant's House -- From an 'East is Red' Steamer -- Ceasing Upon the Midnight -- Unclaimed.

From The Golden Gate -- Soon -- Manohar Shetty -- Fireflies -- Foreshadows -- Gifts -- Wounds -- Domestic Creatures -- Bats -- Departures -- Moving Out.