COLLECTED POEMS

At his best [Thayil?s 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. Features: The collected poems of one of
India?s greatest poets Jeet Thayil has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize
Winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award for his poetry His previous book,
Narcopolis, sold over 40,000 copies Widespread media coverage guaranteed
Praise for the Author ?I revel in Jeet Thayil?s 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 Thayil?s 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 obscure???Keki Daruwalla ?Thayil?s poetry leaves the reader with a
sense of danger, of language teetering wildly on the edge of some precipice,
between centuries, between continents, between fleetingly improvised realms,
suspended somewhere between history and invention, reality and
nowhereness.??Arundhathi Subramaniam ?Thayil?s verse is eloquent, flowing,
metrical, visceral. He walks on the wild side. His voice is that of the
present generation.??Arshia Sattar ?Thayil?s poems refract his vibrant,
unique and far-flung life experience through the prism of a tremendous lyric
intellect.??Philip Nikolayev