Collected Poems

By Nissim Ezekiel,

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This new edition of Nissim Ezekiel's Collected Poems (OUP 1989) comes with a critical introduction reevaluating Ezeikiel's place in the modernist canon by John Thieme, and a preface by Leela Gandhi.

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As a student in Kolkata, India, we read Indian writing in English, and only then I understood that we had our own identity, style, and voice. No one has proven that to me more than the poet who is called the “Father of Indian Poetry,” Nissim Ezekiel. He was quite revolutionary for those times, and a modern poet. He is particularly important to me as he is not only a trailblazer in Indian literary history, but he is from the Bene Israel community to which I belong.

Ezekiel’s book, published by Oxford University Press, is invaluable, as are all his…

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