These Errors Are Correct

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, by unnamed protagonists for whom religion and addiction are interchangeable, and by a remote god-like figure who will "lick / your wound with his infected tongue". A stunning range of fixed and invented forms—rhymed syllabics, terza rima, ghazals, sonnets, the sestina, the canzone, stealth rhymes—result in a poetry of urgency, intimacy, and passion. These Errors are Correct is a haunting book by "one of the most engaging voices you will read, full of wisdom and regret" (Times Online).
About Author:
Jeet Thayil was born in Kerala, India. He was educated in Bombay, Hong Kong, and New York. His poetry collections include English and Apocalypso, and he is the editor of The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets. He is the recipient of awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Rockefeller Foundation, among others. In 2004 he moved from New York to New Delhi and currently lives in Bangalore.