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Collected Poems 1969 2014(Paperback)

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About the bookGathering the work of a lifetime, spanning four books of poetry, andincluding thirty-four new poems, Collected Poems is the first comprehensivecollection of the work of one of India's most influential English languagepoets. Arvind Krishna Mehrotra's poetry has long been known for itsmixing of the commonplace and the strange, the autobiographical andthe fabulous, in which the insignificant details of everyday life-whethercontemporary or historical-bring larger patterns into focus.Mehrotra's celebrated translations from Indian languages (Prakrit, Hindi,Gujarati, Bengali) take up a third of Collected Poems. Selections fromThe Absent Traveller and Songs of Kabir are followed by those of Nirala,Vinod Kumar Shukla, Mangalesh Dabral, Pavankumar Jain and ShaktiChattopadhyay. Together they tell the story of Indian poetry over twomillennia.About the authorBorn in Lahore in 1947, ARVIND KRISHNA MEHROTRA is the author offour previous collections of poetry, Nine Enclosures (1976), Distance inStatute Miles (1982), Middle Earth (1984) and The Transfiguring Places(1998); two of translation, The Absent Traveller (1991) and Songs of Kabir(2011); and editor of the ground-breaking The Oxford India Anthology ofTwelve Modern Indian Poets (1992). His other edited books include AnIllustrated History of Indian Literature in English (2003) and CollectedPoems in English by Arun Kolatkar (2010). As editor, anthologist, andtranslator, Mehrotra has done much to bring the work of Indian poets to awider audience. Along with Adil Jussawalla, Gieve Patel and Arun Kolatkar,he was a founder member of the iconic poetry collective Clearing House.His collected essays, Partial Recall: Essays on Literature and LiteraryHistory appeared in 2012. He lives in Allahabad and Dehradun.

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