First Collected edition of the poetry in English by one of India's greatest modern poets.
Arun Kolatkar Libros
Arun Kolatkar es uno de los poetas más importantes e influyentes de la India posterior a la independencia. Su obra, tanto en marathi como en inglés, se caracteriza por un espíritu modernista y experimental, con influencias de la vanguardia europea. Su poesía temprana en marathi era audaz, oblicua y humorísticamente oscura, mientras que sus trabajos posteriores se volvieron más accesibles y socialmente conscientes. Los poemas de Kolatkar en inglés, que exploran lugares sagrados y la vida urbana, fusionan mito, historia y observación aguda, ofreciendo una perspectiva única y madura que impulsó significativamente la poesía india en inglés.
Jejuri
- 52 páginas
- 2 horas de lectura
A sequence of stunningly simple but haunting poems, Jejuri is one of the great books of modern India. Jejuri is a site of pilgramage in author Arun Kolatkar's native state of Maharashtra, and Jejuri the poem is the record of a visit to the town -- a place that is as crassly commercial as it is holy, as modern and ruinous as it is ancient and enduring. Evoking the town's crowded streets, many shrines, and mythic history of sages and gods, Kolatkar's poem offers a rich description of India while at the same time performing a complex act of devotion. For the essence of the poem is a spiritual quest, the effort to find the divine trace in a degenerate world. Spare, comic, sorrowful, singing, Jejuri is the work of a writer with a unique and visionary voice.