help needed plzz..urgent! nisssin ezekiel's poem needed!?

Question

hi..i m writing a paper on indian english poet..NISSIM EZEKIEL...for which i need to refer to one of his poems called 'At 62'...can u plzz help me in findng d mentioned poem? i have tried many sites n d poem is nowhere 2 b found...cud u ppl plzz help me out..plllzz

Answer 1

It is in this collection, "Hymns in darkness". You can get the volume from your local bookstore or from the publisher.

http://newarrivals.nlb.gov.sg/holding/itemholding.aspx?bid=1266326

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People called Ezekiel "the professor"; to me, he was always "the Rabbi", an only half-facetious title that amused him, for the teacher was blended in him with the sceptic who yet seeks wisdom, the wounded healer. Over the decades, he made himself generously available to aspiring writers: not only to his own immediate clan, the poets, but also to playwrights, fiction writers, memoirists, and that vast reserve army of amateurs who believe they have a book inside them, if only someone would take the trouble to fish it out. Another writer may well have guarded himself against such continuous leakage of energy; Ezekiel patiently played Bodhisattva to ever-expanding circles of literary enthusiasts. In the deeply moving "At 62", he wrote:

"I want my hands/ to learn how to heal/ myself and others,/ before I hear/ my last song."

Ezekiel's 20 years as a formal academician were only one phase in an astonishingly varied, even experimental life. He worked as manager of Chemould, the frame-making establishment that became one of Bombay's leading art galleries; held jobs in advertising, broadcasting and publishing. Admirably, while engaging with social and political crises as a public intellectual, Ezekiel navigated a consistent literary course, publishing eight volumes of poetry, beginning with A Time to Change (1952) and culminating in Collected Poems (1989). Besides, he wrote plays, many performed on the Bombay stage; a suite of songs for his nephew, the musician Nandu Bhende; a body of art criticism, much of it keenly perceptive and mounted from a politically astute position; and a substantial sequence of literary reviews. At various points in his life, he edited the periodicals Quest, Imprint, Poetry India and The Indian PEN Quarterly.

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http://www.geocities.com/indian_poets/indian_english.html



Good luck

Answer 2

I love this Semp. It contains your “trademark” and is filled with mild that movements the spirit. However, I suppose this has to many “ands” which distracts the float I see it like this:- She accumulated up each strip of disappointment and threw it within the wash. Setting the cycle for soaking a heavy load, earlier than she lifted the lid and poured in a few knowledge with a cup of well intentions... She then sat down and watched because the suds washed away suffering and guilt she had picked up someplace, through the years.... Now the spin cycle has all started, she will placed on a blank begin Even if it can be slightly wrinkled..... It’s so much softer