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Marriages Are Made
Eunice De Souza
Eunice de Souza (1940– ), poet and novelist, was born in Pune, educated there and in Mumbai and the United States. For nearly thirty years from 1969, she taught English literature at St Xavier’s College, Mumbai, retiring from there as head of the department. ‘Teaching was finally about changing or modifying or touching the lives of students,’ she felt. Her first poetry collection Fix (1979), ‘… hard-edged and somewhat violent’, led on to three more, Women in Dutch Painting (1988), Ways of Belonging (1990) and Selected and New Poems (1994). Ways of Belonging with its attempts at imagistic poetry was awarded a Poetry Book Society recommendation in 1990. De Souza has written four collections of folk tales ...
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