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At his best [Thayils work] is splendidly structured, both skilful and forceful Dom Moraes From his debut with Gemini in 1992 to his last volume These Errors Are Correct in 2008, Jeet Thayil has been a provocative and indelible presence in Indian poetry. Collected Poems represents more than three decades of work, starting with poems written in the early 1980s. It includes, for the first time, privately circulated, uncollected poems. I revel in Jeet Thayils poetry. He seems to be one of the most contemporary writers I know, and contemporary precisely because he has such command of the poetic and historical past, and because his invented language has such depth, archeological richness, and reality.Vijay Seshadri, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Most of Thayils poems chart paths to redemption, not necessarily his own; they could be the ways his various personae go. The result is a mapping that excites, exhilarates and disturbs.Adil Jussawalla Thayil writes controlled verse, well-crafted, never obscureKeki Daruwalla Thayils poetry leaves the reader with a sense of danger, of language teetering wildly on the edge of some precipice, between centuries, between continents, between

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Author

Jeet Thayil

Publisher

Aleph Book Company

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9789384067113

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Poetry, Poetry Anthologies, Humanities

Rating

3.92 / 5 (23 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14