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Penguin Book of Indian Poets

By: Publication details: Gurugram, Haryana. India: Penguin Random House India, 2022Description: 883ISBN:
  • 9780670096862
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 821.09 THA
Summary: Jeet Thayil has compiled the definitive anthology of Indian poetry in English. This monumental undertaking, two decades in the making, brings together writers from across the world, a wealth of voices-in dialogue, in soliloquy, in rhetoric, and in play-to present an expansive, encompassing idea of what makes an 'Indian' poet. Included are lost, uncollected, or out of print poems by major poets, essays that place entire bodies of work into their precise cultural contexts, and a collection of classic black and white portraits by Madhu Kapparath.
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Jeet Thayil has compiled the definitive anthology of Indian poetry in English. This monumental undertaking, two decades in the making, brings together writers from across the world, a wealth of voices-in dialogue, in soliloquy, in rhetoric, and in play-to present an expansive, encompassing idea of what makes an 'Indian' poet. Included are lost, uncollected, or out of print poems by major poets, essays that place entire bodies of work into their precise cultural contexts, and a collection of classic black and white portraits by Madhu Kapparath.

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