The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets
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The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets by Jeet Thayil
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.
'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 outsideWhile there may not be a firm geographical location to the experience of being an Indian poet, there is certainly a firm emotional one' – Kiran Desai, Guardian Books of the Year
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 Time: India and the End of Diaspora (Routledge, 2006). He has received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Rockefeller Foundation. In 2004, he moved from New York to New Delhi and currently lives in Bangalore.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781852248017 |
| ISBN 10 | 1852248017 |
| Title | The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets |
| Author | Jeet Thayil |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2008-09-25 |
| Number of pages | 424 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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