Another Spring, Darkness: Selected Poems of Anuradha Mahapatra
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A leading contemporary Bengali poet bears witness to the suffering of the dispossessed.BookListIn West Bengal, in the city of the death-mother Kali, a working-class woman is writing. What, beyond academic interest or a taste for exotica, would cause an American reader to seek out her work? A desire for piercingly memorable poetry, perhaps, or that most basic lust of the reader for communion with another soul, communion that transcends time, space, and culture. Both desires will be satisfied by this ravishing book. Mahapatra shows us her India--often destitute, sometimes polluted, simultaneously constrained by tradition and dismembered by modernity but joyously beautiful for all that. Especially she shows us India's women: the girl hauling bath water, the rebellious bride, the woman forced into crime to support her child. Gorgeously lyrical, sometimes surrealistically imagistic, Mahapatra's work also illumines the social and spiritual complexity of her homeland. A fine introduction by Carolyne Wright places the poet in her literary and cultural context.
Introduction: Girl Under the Karam-Tree: The Poetry of Anuradha Mahapatra1Spell23Primeval24Guiltful25Undesired26City Nocturne27Grassland Without Chariot Wheels28To the Mountaintop29A Wayfarer of Days Gone By30The Hunt31Blind River Bank32Second Planet Earth33Mother of the Bud34To You, Mother35Peace37God38Friend39A Little Folktale40Girl Before Her Marriage41Business Woman's Story42About My Little Sister43Nocturne47Astrologer's Prediction48Three Trees, Three Tribals49Engraving50Tambura51Platform on Stilts52The Year 198453Pyre Tender54Cow and Grandmother55Biography56Autobiography of a Field57Bestial59Living in Disguise60Another Spring, Darkness61Household Snake62Sleep63Night Reader64The Boy65Crow66Impatient67The Monster68The Peacock69The Wishing Tree70You (I.)72Wind75You (II.)76Village Nocturne77Notes on the Poems78Translator's Note90About the Poet95About the Translators96
