Arvind Krishna Mehrotra

A one-of-a-kind collection of work by one of India's best contemporary poets.

Gathering the work of a lifetime, spanning four books of poetry, and including thirty-four new poems, this is the first comprehensive collection of the work of one of India's most influential English language poets to be published in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Arvind Krishna Mehrotra's poetry has long been known for its mixing of the commonplace and the strange, the autobiographical and the fabulous, in which the insignificant details of everyday life—whether contemporary 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 from The Absent Traveller and Songs of Kabir are followed by those of Nirala, Vinod Kumar Shukla, Mangalesh Dabral, Pavankumar Jain and Shakti Chattopadhyay. Together they tell the story of Indian poetry over two millennia."

O colectie unica de lucrari a unuia dintre cei mai buni poeti contemporani din India. Adunand opera vietii, cuprinzand patru carti de poezie si incluzand treizeci si patru de poezii noi, aceasta este prima colectie cuprinzatoare a operei unul dintre cei mai influenti poeti din limba engleza din India care urmeaza sa fie publicat in Statele Unite si Regatul Unit.