English Poems

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 of no country except the republic that gives the book its title. English here is more that language-it is a metaphor for divinity, and it holds ahar-won tendernes for ll thing living.
About Author :
Jeet Thayil was born in Kerala, India, and educated in Hongkong, New York and Bombay. In 1998, he returned to New York, where he received and MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. His two earlier collections of poetry, Gemini and Apcalypso, appeared, respectively, in Bombay and London. Jeet Thayil is married and lives in New York City, where he works as an editor and writer.
Contents :
Acknowledgements Part I Moveable Part II Shapeshifter Part III Ache Part IV The Genesis Godwon Part V Ache Part VI Shapeshifter Part VII Moveable