New Explorations In Indian

New Explorations in Indian English Poetry contains essays papers on some new and yet unexplored aspects of Indian English poetry in the post-Independence era, which is a period of experimentation innovation in terms of linguistic expression as well as form and style. Both established and new poets have been included for discussion. Two of the papers in this book are on the poetry of A. K. Ramanujan in which the author gives a new insight into Ramanujan vision, imagery and diction. This collection also contains papers on some lesser known poets like O P Bhatnagar and Manohar Bandopadhyaya. There is an essay bearing accent on some of the prominent signatures in Indian English poetry from the province of Himachal Pradesh. And there is a paper on an entirely new genre of the minimalist verse as practiced by some of the Indian poets.
About Author :
Kanwar Dinesh Singh currently teaches English in a government college based at Shimla. he is an author of eight poetry books in English. His latest publications include: The flow of Soul: Selected Poems and Scintillations: the Junctures of Satori. He is editor of Litcrit India, a journal of creative and critical wriitng in English. From 2001 to 2003 he was an associate at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study where he researched indpendently on modern Indian english included in New Explorations in Indian english poetry were presented by him in the seminars at the Institute.
Contents :
Preface Contemporary Indian English Poetry Polysemy and Mosaic Vision in A K Ramanujan poem The Striders The Vocables of Science in Poetic Discourse A Poet of Caustic Realism and Oneric vision Manohar Bandopadhyaya is Mouthful of Metaphors: A critique The Minimalist verse The poetry of Kanwar dinesh singh Index