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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''"I Would Know You Anywhere"''' is an Indian poem on the popular Hindu god [[Ganesha]] by the Indian English poet Revathy Gopal. The poem won Second Prize in the Ninth All India Poetry Competition conducted by [[The Poetry Society (India)]] in 2000.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.indianpoetry.org/comp9.htm |title= Award Winning Poems - AIPC 2000}}</ref> This was the second major literary award for Revathy, who had also won second prize in the eighth All India Poetry Competition.<br />
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==Excerpts from the poem==<br />
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:I would know you anywhere<br />
:even as a line drawing,<br />
:with only a suggestion<br />
:of broken tusk.<br />
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:A mischievous arc<br />
:of belly and trunk;<br />
:minimalist.<br />
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::: *****<br />
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:I know you in stone<br />
:and wood. Terracotta<br />
:is fine; once in someone’s<br />
:living room,<br />
:I saw you made in jade<br />
:with the light trapped inside.<br />
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::: *****<br />
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:In shops sometimes.<br />
:they seal you in plastic.<br />
:Even on a crowded, noisy street<br />
:you make<br />
:an area of stillness<br />
:around you.<br />
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::: *****<br />
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:I stand in a trance<br />
:watching the dance.<br />
:One leg lifted high,<br />
:or in the indolence<br />
:after sleep,<br />
:balancing your elephantine<br />
:head in your hand.<br />
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:Renegade, clown, purveyor of dreams,<br />
:Dispeller of darkness, arbiter of destinies.<br />
:You stand just beyond<br />
:my angle of vision,<br />
:untamed, unclaimed.<br />
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==Comments and criticism==<br />
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The poem has received rave reviews since its first publication in 2000 in the book ''Emerging Voices''.<ref>''Poetry India - Emerging Voices'' by H K Kaul, ''Virgo Publications'', 1998</ref> The poem has been frequently quoted in scholarly analysis of contemporary Indian English Poetry.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2002/20020324/spectrum/book10.htm |title= Fourteen Contemporary Indian Poets – Rana Nayar in ''The Tribune''}}</ref> The poem has become very popular in Indian English literature and has been widely anthologised.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/amit/books/bhattacharjee-2006-indian-literature-227.html |title= ''Indian Literature'', 227, May-June 2005 – Revathy Gopal}}</ref><ref>''Contemporary Indian Poets'' by Jeet Thayil, ''Fulcrum'', Bloodaxe Books, 1996</ref><br />
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==Online references==<br />
*[http://www.indianpoetry.org/comp9.htm Ninth National Poetry Competition 2000 - Award Winners]<br />
*[http://sacred-songs.blogspot.in/2007/06/vatapi-ganapatim.html Sacred Songs - ''I Would Know You Anywhere'' by Revathy Gopal]<br />
*[http://spaniardintheworks.blogspot.in/2007/03/in-memoriam-revathy-gopal.html Revathy Gopal in Memoriam]<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20121216063849/http://www.indiawrites.org/poetry/poetry.html ''India Writes'' - Contemporary Indian Poetry]<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Indian English Poetry]]<br />
*[[The Poetry Society (India)]]<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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[[Category:Hindu poetry]]<br />
[[Category:Indian poems]]<br />
[[Category:2000 poems]]<br />
[[Category:Works originally published in Indian magazines]]<br />
[[Category:Works originally published in literary magazines]]</div>>Lopifalko