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A Current of Blood (HB)

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Author: Namdeo Dhasal
Translated by Dilip Chitre

9788189059927 | HB | pp. 120 | 2007 | Navayana

A Current of Blood by Namdeo Dhasal is a translated selection of the marathi poets work from eight different collections.

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Translated byDilip Chitre
9781787462144 | Hardback | 120 | 2007 | Navayana

A Current of Blood by Namdeo Dhasal is a translated selection of the marathi poets work from eight different collections.

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‘I am a venereal sore in the private part of language.’ That’s Namdeo Dhasal, the maverick Marathi poet who hardly had any formal education. Born in 1949 in a former ‘untouchable’ community in Pur-Kanersar village near Pune in Maharashtra, as a teenage taxi driver he lived among pimps, prostitutes, petty criminals, drug peddlers, gangsters and illicit traders in Bombay/Mumbai’s sinister and sordid underworld. In 1972, he founded Dalit Panther, the militant organisation modelled on Black Panther. The same year he published Golpitha that belongs to the tradition in modern urban poetry beginning with Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal. Since then, he has published eight collections of poems from which this representative selection is drawn.

In 2004, India’s national academy of letters, Sahitya Akademi, honoured Dhasal with the only Lifetime Achievement Award it gave during its golden jubilee celebrations. Dhasal’s long-time friend and bilingual poet Dilip Chitre, acclaimed for his translations of the seventeenth century Marathi poet-saint Tukaram, considers Namdeo Dhasal to be one of the outstanding poets of the twentieth century. He died in 2014.

Author:

Namdeo Dhasal
Translator: Dilip Chitre
ISBN:

9781787462144
Publisher:

Navayana
Binding:

Hardback
Pages:

120
Year of Publication:

2007
Edition:

Revised
Condition:

New, cover shows slight signs of age
Country of Origin:

India

About the Author

Namdeo Dhasal, the maverick Marathi poet who hardly had any formal education. Born in 1949 in a former 'untouchable' community in Pur-Kanersar village near Pune in Maharashtra, as a teenage taxi driver he lived among pimps, prostitutes, petty criminals, drug peddlers, gangsters and illicit traders in Bombay/Mumbai's sinister and sordid underworld. In 1972, he founded Dalit Panther, the militant organisation modelled on Black Panther. The same year he published Golpitha that belongs to the tradition in modern urban poetry beginning with Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal.

Dilip Chitre (1938–2009) was a poet, painter, translator, and filmmaker. He wrote more than fifteen volumes of poetry in Marathi and ten in English. His film Godam won the Prix Special du Jury in Nantes in 1984.

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