Jejuri

by Arun Kolatkar

Other authorsAmit Chaudhuri (Introduction)
Paperback, 2005

Status

Available

Call number

821.914

Collection

Publication

NYRB Classics (2005), Paperback, 52 pages

Description

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.… (more)

Language

Original language

English

Physical description

52 p.; 5 inches

ISBN

1590171632 / 9781590171639
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