The Maharani’s New Wall and Other Poems (Wesleyan Poetry Series) - Softcover

Ray, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 081951165X ISBN 13: 9780819511652

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press, 1989

Synopsis

Memories and history combine in these poems about the Vietnam War

About this title

About the Author:

David Ray is author of many prize-winning books of poetry. Former poetry consultant to the Library of Congress Josephine Jacobsen describes David Ray as "one of the most sensitive and humane, as well as accomplished, of our American poets."

Review:

"A trip across the landscape and into the psychic heart of that most mysterious of continents." -- New Letters Review of Books

Address To A Child
Agra Near The Taj
Ajanta
The Armory
At A Fortress In India
At The Hill Station
Back Home
The Bus From Delhi
By A Lake Near Jaipur
The Caves
A Chat With A Holy Man
Elysium In The Halls Of Hell
A Family
Funeral Procession
The Ganges At Dawn
A Gas Cylinder
Grapes Of Wrath
Hash
Heroes
A Human Donkey
The Hundred-year-old Scotch In Rajasthan
In Bombay
Jaipur
Leaving
Little Incident
Lobster
The Lovers
The Maharani's New Wall
Mammalapuram
My Rooftop Room
Near The Red Fort
The Optometrist
Peacocks
Peasant Girl
The Progress Of The Soul
Purdah
The Razor's Edge
The Rickshaw Wallah Told Us
Rickshaw Wallahs
The Roadmenders
The Rooftop Room
Sociology
A Statue Of Gandhiji
Three Prayers: After Tagore
The Tour Group
Two Before The Temple
The Unauthorized Colonies
Villagers
A Well In India
Yama
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 081951165X
• ISBN 13: 9780819511652
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 80