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The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets
Jeet Thayil
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Paperback. Covers 55 years of Indian poetry in English. This anthology represents 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 countries as well as in India. Editor(s): Thayil, Jeet. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 712. 368 pages, Illustrations. Editor(s): Thayil, Jeet. Covers 55 years of Indian poetry in English. This anthology represents 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 countries as well as in India. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1FKA; DCQ. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 25. Weight: 700.
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 countries as well as in India. 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.Thayil's starting-point is Nissim Ezekiel, ... Read more
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 countries as well as in India. 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.Thayil's starting-point is Nissim Ezekiel, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852248017
SKU
V9781852248017
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About Jeet Thayil
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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets
'The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets, edited by Jeet Thayil, is a labour of love that gathers the Indian poets writing in English from the past and the present, from within India, from outside. While there may not be a firm geographical location to the experience of being an Indian poet, there is certainly a firm emotional one' – ... Read more