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Modern Indian Poetry in English is a book on the analysis and appreciation of late twentieth century poetry in India by Bruce King. Summary of the Book Bruce King helps readers understand the trends in Indian poetry from the 1990s. He discusses recent poets, their stylistic modus operandi and their finest works. He discusses poems in dialectical sets and studies how the poets obsessed over their style and forms. He looks at the essence of the poems, showing how writers brought out the meaning in unique ways. This book includes five chapters and an additional chapter on the late Kashmiri-American poet Agha Shahid Ali. About Bruce King Bruce King is a British academic and a former lecturer in English at the University of Bristol. He has also written New English Literatures: Cultural Nationalism in a Changing World, Modern Indian Poetry in English, Three Indian Poets, V. S. Naipaul and Derek Walcott: A Caribbean Life.