“edited by jeet thayil”

In this major collection by one of India's finest poets, Jeet Thayil offers his most affecting work to date, a startling meditation on love, grief, and the random dictates of history. In poems shaped by tenderness and rage, time blurs into a continuous present visited by Beethoven and Babur, b... More

60 Indian Poets spans fifty-five years of Indian poetry in English, bridging continents and generations, and seeks to expand the definition of ‘Indianness’. Beginning in 1952 with selections from Nissim Ezekiel’s first volume of poetry which was published in London, it honours the canonical wr... More

The narrator in these poems abandons the sectarian histories of 1990s’ Bombay for the relative calm of New York, only to find himself a witness to September 11, 2001. In the faux prologue poem ‘About the Author’, he stands ‘on Sixth, watching ruin, with a handful of rain and a prophecy’, a... More

60 Indian Poets spans fifty-five years of Indian poetry in English, bridging continents and generations, and seeks to expand the definition of ‘Indianness’. Beginning in 1952 with selections from Nissim Ezekiel’s first volume of poetry which was published in London, it honours the... More

The narrator in these poems abandons the sectarian histories of 1990's Bombay for the relative calm of New York, only to find himself a witness to September 11, 2001. In the faux prologue peom, 'About the Author', he stands'on sixth, watching ruin, with/a handful of rain and a prophecy', a citisen o... More