Collected Poems (Oxford India Collection) [Paperback]

Nissim Ezekiel (Author), Leela Gandhi (Introduction), John Thieme (Introduction)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0195672496 | ISBN-13: 978-0195672497 | Publication Date: January 6, 2006 | Edition: 2

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

Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 2 edition (January 6, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0195672496
• ISBN-13: 978-0195672497
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #968,211 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars An important modern poet, March 13, 2007

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This review is from: Collected Poems (Oxford India Collection) (Paperback)

Nissim Ezekiel is often described as a founder of modern English verse in India, or as the leading writer to come out of the "Bene Israel" a long-isolated Jewish community in Western India. This is not really fair to a highly readable modern poet with affinities to Yeats, W.C. Williams, and others, although Ezekiel also wrote poems in an Indo-English dialect that anticipate the prose works of Salman Rushdie.