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Apparition in April
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Collected Poems
Keki Daruwalla Established Himself As A Name To Reckon With In Indian Poetry With The Publication Of His Very First Book, Under Orion (1970). With Nine Published Volumes So Far, Including The Keeper Of The Dead Which Won The Sahitya Akademi Award In 1984, And Landscapes, Which Won The Coveted Commonwealth Poetry Prize For Asia In 1987, He Is Today One Of India&Rsquo;S Foremost Poets. His Poetry, Characterized By A Trademark Vigour And Immediacy Of Language, A Razor-Sharp Tone And Subtle Imagery, Consistently Strikes An Ingenious Balance Between Image And Statement. With His Capacity To Blend A Larger-Than-Life Canvas With An Unfailing Eye For Detail, He Addresses A Remarkable Variety Of Themes In His Poems&Mdash;From The Epic Concerns Of Culture And History, Myth And Religion To The Quotidian Affairs Of Life And Death, Love And Passion. This Definitive Edition, Testimony To His Prodigious Output And Astonishing Breadth Of Vision, Brings Together Over Three Decades Of Keki Daruwalla&Rsquo;S Work And Also Includes A Whole New Section Of Poems Previously Unpublished.
The Poetry of Keki N. Daruwalla
Keki Nasserwanji Daruwalla, b. 1937, Indian English poet.
Winter Poems
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Critical Spectrum
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Ancestral Affairs
It is 1947 and Saam Bharucha, a Parsee, is in Junagadh as legal adviser to the nawab to help steer the state through the tricky path of accession to either India or Pakistan. As he struggles with the morality of eating the nawab's salt while opposing his wishes to join Pakistan, his life changes dramatically. Away from his wife Zarine, he has an affair with Claire, a British lady, which ends his marriage and creates a rift with his son, Rohinton. Growing up in newly independent India, Rohinton, too, has his share of drama. Expelled from medical school, sued for libel and given a hard time by the beautiful Feroza, his life plays out as a tragicomic counterpart to his father's. Drawing on real-life characters and events, Ancestral Affairs is a family saga with a grand sweep -- from the opium wars to the freedom struggle to the Partition of the subcontinent. Seldom have the events of 1947, and their fallout, been described in such humane detail and with such droll humour in Indian fiction.
Landfall Poems
Keki Daruwalla uncommon responsiveness to the natural world, and the rare immediacy of his language.
Landscapes
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Under Orion
Under Orion, Keki N. Daruwalla's first book of poems, immediately won critical acclaim. Nissim Ezekiel, the doyen of Indian poets writing in English, hailed it enthusiastically, comparing the volume favourably with the first publications of Dom Moraes and A.K. Ramanujan. He wrote, Under Orion is impressive evidence not only of mature poetic talent but of literary stamina, intellectual strength of mind and social awareness. Darulwalla's poetry finds its own form in a fine blend of freedom and discipline, metrical rhythms and the word order of prose, compact, harsh alliterative phrasing and relaxed movement.
