Daruwalla-keki-n The Glass Blower ISBN 13: 9781904614449

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Keki N. Daruwalla is one of India's leading English-language writers. He has published nine volumes of poetry, the sixth of which - "Landscapes" - won him the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for Asia in 1987. His Collected Poems 1970-2005 appeared from Penguin India in 2006. He is also the author of three volumes of short stories, a novella, two collections of poetry for children and a travelogue, as well as being well-known as a writer on international affairs and a prolific reviewer."The Glass-Blower" contains poems from all nine published collections as well as a body of new work. Daruwalla's poetry is characterized by the vigour and immediacy of its language, the delicacy of its land-scapes, the sharpness and sensitivity of its portrayals of both individuals and human society, and the breadth of its subject matter. This first full-length volume of Daruwalla's work to be published outside of India provides a long-overdue opportunity to become better acquainted with a poet previously encountered in the UK - in tantalizing glimpses - only in anthologies.

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Keki N. Daruwalla is one of India's leading English-language writers. Born in 1937 in Lahore, he holds a Masters degree from Government College Ludhiana. He has published nine volumes of poetry, the fifth of which, 'The Keeper of the Dead', won him the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1982 and the sixth, 'Landscapes', the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for Asia in 1987. His Collected Poems 1970-2005 appeared from Penguin India in 2006. He is also the author of three volumes of short stories, a novella, two collections of poetry for children and, most recently, 'Riding the Himalayas' (2006), a unique travelogue of a car-trek by the author and twelve others from the Siachen Glacier in Ladakh to the easternmost tip of the Himalayas. He is also well-known as a writer on international affairs and a prolific reviewer. Keki Daruwalla joined Government service in 1958 and served for many years in the Indian Police Service. In 1974, he joined the Cabinet Secretariat, was appointed Special Assistant to the Prime Minister in 1979 and, in 1980, was part of the Commonwealth Observers' Group for the Zimbabwe elections. When he retired, he was Chairman, Joint Intelligence Committee.He is a Parsi Zoroastrian.
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[Keki Daruwalla's poems are] "rightly admired for their range, from philosophical meditation to closely observed detail. Daruwalla writes as compellingly about urban India as he does about mountain shepherds, a fish, an encounter with a snow leopard, the nature of love or poetry itself. He can inhabit historical or mythical figures...; he can conjure the migration or decline of tribes and cities; he can track the palpitations of the heart in the grip of love. Dramatic narratives describing civil strife of a kind he may have witnessed through his work in the Indian Police Service keep the company of tender poems for his daughters... Extended sequences go alongside perfectly achieved miniatures of a few lines. Above all, here is a writer whose witty, affirmative restlessness rewards the reader over and over... In spite adn becuase of everything, 'the middle lane, between / demonology and miracle' turns out to offer a wonderfully exhilarating ride."Lawrence Sail, The Warwick Review, Vol. I, No. 3

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  • PublisherArc Publications
  • Publication date2008
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  • ISBN 13 9781904614449
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