{"product_id":"collected-poems-1954-2004","title":"Collected Poems : 1954  - 2004","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Dom Moraes\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Penguin\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2004\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 355\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 0143031368\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the age of nineteen, Dom Moraes achieved instant fame as a poet with his first book of verse, A Beginning, which won the Hawthornden Prize in 1957. Since then he has published nine more collections of poems, including Serendip which won the Sahitya Akademi Award in  1994. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe lyrical beauty and technical virtuosity that are the hallmarks of his poetry have enthralled readers for almost five decades, drawing them into a mesmerizing world of passion, romance, fear, grief, death and renewal. Characterized by an elegant and hypnotic imagery, the surreal texture of his poems weave together a variety of themes - love and war, friendship and alienation, myth and religion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn addition to all the verse he has ever published in his distinguished career spanning fifty years, Collected Poems 1954-2004 contains a long new sequence and several other poems hitherto unpublished.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eREVIEWS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMoraes is indisputably the greatest living Indian poet working in English.\u003cbr\u003e-William Dalrymple\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe has both power and tenderness. At his best, he can rise to a magnificent fusion of the flesh and the spirit, of religious intensity with human compassion.\u003cbr\u003e-K W Gransden in Encounter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom A Beginning (1957)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Poems (1960)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom John Nobody (1965)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Beldam Etcetera (1967)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Collected Poems (1957-1987)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Serendip (1990)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom In Cinnamon Shade (2001)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Typed with One Finger (2003)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNew Poems (2003-04)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Dom Moraes \/ Penguin \/ Paperback","offer_id":68153679577456,"sku":"13616","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/5203\/9792\/files\/13616.jpg?v=1793912434","url":"https:\/\/marketcalvexa.shop\/products\/collected-poems-1954-2004","provider":"Alderstone House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}