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Collected PoemsSujata Bhatt
Categories: 20th Century, 21st Century, BAME, Indian, Women
Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (320 pages) (Pub. Sep 2013) 9781857549973 £19.95 £17.95 eBook (EPUB) Needs ADE! (Pub. Sep 2013) 9781847772763 £19.95 £17.95 To use the EPUB version, you will need to have Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) installed on your device. You can find out more at https://www.adobe.com/uk/solutions/ebook/digital-editions.html. Please do not purchase this version if you do not have and are not prepared to install, Adobe Digital Editions.
Days my tongue slips away.
I can't hold on to my tongue. It's slippery like the lizard's tail I try to grasp but the lizard darts away. from 'Search for My Tongue' This book gathers four decades of writing, published in collections from Brunizem in 1988 to Pure Lizard in 2008. It maps the poet’s trajectory, following her exile from her homeland, India, and her mother tongue, Gujarati, to the landscapes and languages of the USA and then Europe. Urgent, compassionate and inventive, Bhatt’s work forms a uniquely sustained project of reinvention and rediscovery.
BRUNIZEM (1988) I The First Disciple Sujata: The First Disciple of Buddha The Peacock Iris Buffaloes Udaylee The Doors are Always Open Shérdi Swami Anand For Nanabhai Bhatt Nachiketa Kalika For My Grandmother Muliebrity Reincarnation Lizards The First Meeting Something for Plato The Difference between Being and Becoming II A Different History A Different History She Finds Her Place The Kama Sutra Retold Menu Parvati Looking Through a French Photographer’s Portrayal of Rajasthan with Extensive Use of Orange Filters Oranges and Lemons The Women of Leh are such – Paper and Glass Another Act for the Lübecker Totentanz What Is Worth Knowing? Another Day in Iowa City Living with Trains Baltimore The Woodcut The Puppets Pink Shrimps and Guesses Looking Over What I Have Done Hey, Search for My Tongue III Eurydice Speaks Marie Curie to Her Husband The Garlic of Truth Wanting Agni Eurydice Speaks Mein lieber Schwan Written after Hearing about the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan 3 November 1984 You Walk into This Room and Mappelmus The Undertow At the Marketplace Metamorphoses II: A Dream Saturday Night on Keswick Road The Writer Sad Songs with Henna Leaves Tail Go to Ahmedabad To My Muse Brunizem Well, Well, Well, MONKEY SHADOWS (1991) I The Way to Maninagar The Langur Coloured Night The Stare Maninagar Days The Daily Offering The Glassy Green and Maroon Ajwali Ba Nanabhai Bhatt in Prison Kankaria Lake A Different Way to Dance What Happened to the Elephant? Red August Understanding the Ramayana Devibahen Pathak II Angels’ Wings Angels’ Wings Mozartstrasse 18 Yellow October Wine from Bordeaux A Story for Pearse Groningen: Saturday Market on a Very Sunny Day Counting Sheep White Blood Cells The Mad Woman in the Attic The Fish Hat The Echoes in Poona Walking Across the Brooklyn Bridge, July 1990 III Until Our Bones Prevent Us from Going Further The Sea at Night Another Portrait of Bartolo Rooms by the Sea Franz Marc’s Blaue Fohlen Sunlight in a Cafeteria Portrait of a Double Portrait White Asparagus Distances The Rooster in Conil Just White Chips Beyond Edinburgh Love in a Bathtub Belfast, November 1987 29 April 1989 The Need to Recall the Journey At the Flower Market Sinking into the Solstice Until Our Bones Prevent Us from Going Further What Does One Write When the World Starts to Disappear? THE STINKING ROSE (1995) I Freak Waves The One Who Goes Away We are Adrift Although She’s a Small Woman Point No Point ‘Man Swept out to Sea as Huge Wave Hit Rock’ When the Dead Feel Lonely How Far East is it Still East? The Three Sisters The Wild Woman of the Forest Polish-German Woodcarver Visits Vancouver Island Victor, Whiskey, Juliet, 2 2 3 Salt Spring Island Your Sorrow II New World Dialogues The Light Teased Me Cow’s Skull – Red, White and Blue Skinny-dipping in History Parrots What Does the Flower of Life Say, Frida Kahlo? Chutney Nothing is Black, Really Nothing The Blue Snake Who Loves Water Pelvis with Moon It Has Come to This III The Stinking Rose The Stinking Rose Ninniku Russown Garlic in War and Peace Mars Owns this Herb A Touch of Coriander Bear’s Garlic at Nevern Frightened Bees Ther is No Rose of Swych Virtu The Worm A Poem in Three Voices A Brahmin Wants the Cows to Eat Lots of Garlic If You Named Your Daughter Garlic Instead of Lily or Rose Self-Portrait with Garlic Allium Moly and Odysseus Instructions to the Artist A First Draft from the Artist The Man in the Artist’s First Draft Speaks The Good Farmer A Wintry July in Bremen Rosehips in August If a Ghazal were like Garlic Garlic and Sapphires in the Mud The Pharaoh Speaks It Has Not Rained for Months IV Old World Blood An India of the Soul A Gujarati Patient Speaks Shantih Genealogy Black Swans for Swantje One of the Wurst-Eaters on the Day After Good Friday Fate Orpheus Confesses to Eurydice Jealousy Kaspar Hauser Dreams of Horses Ophelia in Defence of the Queen Monsoon with Vector Anophelines More Fears about the Moon Lizard, Iguana, Chameleon, Salamander Sharda V Riyaj The Voices Consciousness Translation: Meditation on a Poem by Hasmukh Pathak First Rain Sruti Water Frauenjournal AUGATORA (2000) I Augatora Looking Up Squirrels The Dream Augatora Durban: A Visit to the Botanical Gardens A Memory from Marathi The Virologist Barcelona Gazpacho After Dinner in Conil Your Postcards A Swimmer in New England Speaks The Snake Catcher Speaks II History is a Broken Narrative Surus to Hannibal Partition Diabetes Mellitus The Pope, Tito and the WHO After the Earthquake Voice of the Unwanted Girl History is a Broken Narrative New Orleans Revisited The Shirodkar Suture A Room in Amsterdam Honeymoon Jerusalem The Woman they call Abuela Łódź Green Amber in Riga Language Jane to Tarzan III The Hole in the Wind The Hole in the Wind IV The Found Angel: Nine Poems for Ria Eïng The Found Angel Birthday Totem Pole The Snail-Ear Stingray Vogelfrau Broom, Wind and Bird: Zeitwanderer The Fox and the Angel A Black Feather Beeswax and Snakeskin Head V Ars Poetica Is it a Voice? Skintight with Ice The Mammoth Bone My Mother’s Way of Wearing a Sari A Poem Consisting Entirely of Introductions This Room is Part of the NYC Subway System Montauk Garden with Stones and Water Equilibrium A Detail from the Chandogya Upanishad Poem for a Reader who was Born Blind The Circle The Multicultural Poem Meeting the Artist in Durban Ars Poetica A COLOUR FOR SOLITUDE (2002) Self-Portrait as Aubade, 1897 Self-Portrait Done with Red Chalk, 1897 Self-Portrait as My Sister, 1897 Self-Portrait with Coppery Red Hair, 1897/98 Self-Portrait in Front of Window Offering a View of Parisian Houses, 1900 Two Girls, Two Sisters, PB to CW, 1900 Black Sails, PB to RMR, September 1900 A White Horse Grazing in Moonlight, 1901 Your Weyerberg Gaze, CW to RMR, 1901 No Road Leads to This, CW to RMR, 1901 The Washing on the Line, 1901 Two Girls in a Landscape, 1901 Icicles Hang from the Reeds of Our Roof, CW to PB, February 1902 You Kissed My Eyelids, PB to RMR, March 1902 Elsbeth, PB to CW, July 1902 Self-Portrait with Scratches, 1903 Self-Portrait with Blossoming Trees, 1903 Two Girls: The Blind Sister, 1903 Self-Portrait in Front of a Landscape with Trees, 1903 Two Girls in Profile in a Landscape, charcoal, 1903/04 In Her Green Dress, She is, 1905 Self-Portrait with Your Jaw Set, 1905 You are the Rose, CW to RMR, 1905 A Red Rose in November, PB to CW, 1905 Don’t Look at Me like That, CW to PB, 1905 Runic, PB to CW, 1905 Self-Portrait with an Oversized Hat and a Red Rose in the Right Hand, 1905 Self-Portrait with a Necklace of White Beads, 1906 Self-Portrait with a Wreath of Red Flowers in Your Hair, 1906 A Colour for Solitude, PB to RMR, 1906 Self-Portrait on My Fifth Wedding Anniversary, 25-5-06 Self-Portrait as a Nude Torso with an Amber Necklace, 1906 Self-Portrait as Anonymous, 1906 You Spoke of Italy, PB to RMR, 1906 Is there More Truth in a Photograph?, PB to her sister HB, 1906 Self-Portrait as a Life-Sized Nude, 1906 Self-Portrait as a Standing Nude with a Hat, 1906 Self-Portrait Wearing a Blue and White Striped White Dress, 1906 Self-Portrait with Yellowish Green, 1906 Two Girls: One Sitting in a White Shirt, the Other, a Standing Nude, 1906 Two Girls: Nude, One Standing, the Other Kneeling in Front of Red Poppies, 1906 Two Girls with their Arms Across their Shoulders, 1906 Self-Portrait on a Hot Day in Paris, 1906 Self-Portrait as a Mask, 1906 Self-Portrait with a Hat and Veil, 1906 Self-Portrait, Frontal, with a Flower in the Right Hand, 1906/7 A White Horse Grazing in Moonlight, a retrospective view of 1901, PB to OM Otto with a Pipe, PB to OM, 1906/07 Self-Portrait with a Lemon, 1906/07 Self-Portrait with a Sprig of Camellia Leaves, 1906/07 And What Will Death Do?, 1906/07 Self-Portrait with Two Flowers in the Left Hand, PB to CW, 1907 Who has Just Died? CW to PB, 1908 Through the Blackness, CW to PB, 1915 21 November 1916, CW to PB The Room Itself is Dying, CW to RMR, circa 1921 Ruth’s Wish, CW to RMR, 1936 16 April 1945, CW to PB Was it the Blue Irises? Clara’s Voice Lines Written in Venice Fischerhude, 2001 Worpswede, 2001 PURE LIZARD (2008) I A Hidden Truth A Hidden Truth The Fourth Monkey Two Monkeys The Crow, his Beak, and a Girl Nine Poems in Response to Etchings by Paula Rego The Crow’s House The Crow and his Cat A Tube of Paint The Night Crow Sewing on the Shadow Flying Children Wendy and the Lost Boys Mermaid Drowning Wendy Wendy’s Song II Telemann’s Frogs What is Exotic? Pure Lizard Storm Bhagavati Coffee Good Omens Only the Blackest Stones Parvati Temple, Poona Whenever I Return Telemann’s Frogs Buddha’s Lost Mother Gale Force Winds Living with Stones Piece Caprice Whose Ghost Is This? Hyacinths Jasmine Tastes Bitter Suji Monkey Woman Lightning In the End Korean Angel kikku no sekku III Sad Walk The Imagination She Slipped Through the Suez Canal The Light that Unfetters the Soul And look: the olives ripen, the lizards stretch Three Poems from South Korea Bamboo in Gyeongju King Munmu Because of the Moon Finding India in Unexpected Places Six Entries from a Witch’s Diary Zinzirritta Incessant Unexpected Blackness Sad Walk IV Solo Piano Radishes Jane Eyre in the Lab Nine Poems in Response to Lithographs by Paula Rego Girl Reading at Window Loving Bewick Crumpled Jane in a Chair with Monkey Jane’s Back Bertha Biting The Keeper Come to Me Four Poems in Response to Paintings by Paula Rego The Cadet and his Sister The Maids The Soldier’s Daughter The Policeman’s Daughter Portrait of a Young Man in his Study, Venice, 1528 The Old Man Who is Not Felice Beato Enters Sikander Bagh The Smell of Lilacs 328 Mickle Boulevard, Camden, New Jersey Abstractions Circling Over Medellín A House of Silence Devibahen and Harilal in Pennsylvania Green Acorns He Farms for Beauty Phytoremediation Do Not Use the Word ‘Erosion’ Lightly Solo Piano: After Listening to Philip Glass Notes Index of Titles Index of First Lines
Awards won by Sujata Bhatt
Winner, 2000 Italian Tratti Poetry Prize
Winner, 1991 Cholmondeley Award
Winner, 1988 Alice Hunt Bartlett Award (Brunizem)
Winner, 1991 Commonwealth Poetry Prize (Asia)
Short-listed, 1995 Forward Poetry Prize
'Sujata Bhatt leads the reader through the bright, familiar world and on into the dark until her words pierce that darkness, offering a light that will challenge and reward. Here are poems that move confidently through that dangerous border-world between the real and the surreal, illuminating both. This book is a treasure-house of modern, magical poems.'
John F. Deane 'Here is a chance to see Sujata Bhatt's favourite themes strengthened by re-gathering. A common theme is language, the very stuff of poetry, given special insight by her travels and her multilingual experience. In India, she says, it is 'a sin to be rude to a book'; 'The Stare' considers two babies, human and monkey, gazing at each other curiously, one with language, the other with' who knows? Elsewhere she considers the loss of her mother tongue, 'dead' in her mouth but returning to her in dreams. A broad-minded, humane, imaginative book.' Gillian Clarke, National Poet of Wales Praise for Sujata Bhatt 'a substantial collection of poems, one that allows us to travel, dream and learn, but one that ultimately moves us by the quietude of its stance and its impeccable articulation.' Times Literary Supplement Bhatt's style is refreshingly plain and direct, depending for its lyricism on moments of gentle repitition. Alan Marshall, The Daily Telegraph. 'An exciting first collection, moving and invigorating.' Poetry Review
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