The Maharani’s New Wall and Other Poems (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, these poems written in India confront a variety of cultural issues and an American's response to places, rituals, individuals and historical figures. The dramatic title poem, which could serve for a movie script, deals with a Maharani's building a great wall which shuts peasants out of their ancestral territory. "David Ray's depictions and evaluations of Indian life are enthralling," wrote Richard Eberhart.