Description
Vanishing Acts by Ranjit Hoskoté, winner of the Sahitya Akademi Golden Jubilee Award 2004, brings together some of his best poetry, drawn from his three published collections, along with a substantial body of new poems. While continuing to explore the interplay between the epic, devastating sweep of historical events and an intimate, often vulnerable, self, his new poems dwell on emigrants, fugitives, interpreters, double agents—survivors who walk the fragile border between eternity and transience. Experimenting with a variety of forms—ranging from the canticle to the cycle, the adapted sonnet to the passionate apostrophe—Hoskoté expresses the anxieties and delights of a transitive self that constantly shifts location, and evokes strikingly the worlds that can open up at the edges of memory, identity and language.
About the Author
Ranjit Hoskotes collections of poetry include Vanishing Acts: New and Selected Poems 19852005 and Die Ankunft der Vögel. His translation of the fourteenth-century Kashmiri mystic Lal Ded has been published as I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal Ded. He is the editor of Dom Moraes: Selected Poems, the first annotated critical edition of a major Anglophone Indian poets work. Hoskotes poems have been published in numerous anthologies, including Language for a New Century, The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets, and The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry. His poems have appeared in many journals, including Akzente, Fulcrum, Green Integer Review, Iowa Review, nthposition, Poetry Review (London), Prairie Schooner and Wespennest.
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