The Bloodaxe Book of Modern Indian Poets - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1852248017 ISBN 13: 9781852248017

Publisher: Bloodaxe Books, 2008

Synopsis

Jeet Thayil's definitive selection covers 55 years of Indian poetry in English. It is the first anthology to represent not just the major poets of the past half-century - the canonical writers who have dominated Indian poetry and publishing since the 1950s - but also the different kinds of poetry written by an extraordinary range of younger poets who live in many other countries. It is a groundbreaking global anthology of 70 poets writing in a common language, responding to shared traditions, different cultures and contrasting lives in the changing modern world. ""This is a crucial addition to world poetry and an eye-opening reading adventure."" The Bloomsbury Review

About this title

About the Author:

Jeet Thayil was born in Kerala in 1959 and educated in Jesuit schools in Hongkong, New York and Bombay. He is a graduate of Wilson College, Bombay, and he received an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, New York. He has published four collections of poetry, including English (Penguin/Rattapallax, 2004) and These Errors Are Correct (Westland Books, 2008), and edited Divided Time: India and the End of Diaspora (Routledge, 2006). He has received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Rockefeller Foundation. In 2004, he moved from New York to New Delhi and currently lives in Bangalore.

Review:

This is a crucial addition to world poetry and an eye-opening reading adventure. --The Bloomsbury Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1852248017
• ISBN 13: 9781852248017
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 424
• Editor: Thayil Jeet