Sweet Shop: New and Selected Poems, 1985-2023 Chaudhuri Amit
Meditations on city life in Mumbai, Calcutta, and the United Kingdom as well as elegies for the dead populate this original collection.Amit Chaudhuri, one of the English language's most exploratory…
Specifikacia Sweet Shop: New and Selected Poems, 1985-2023 Chaudhuri Amit
Meditations on city life in Mumbai, Calcutta, and the United Kingdom as well as elegies for the dead populate this original collection.Amit Chaudhuri, one of the English language's most exploratory writers of fiction, has also written and published poetry throughout his career as a novelist, poetry that shares many of the concern of his prose while sounding a distinct and memorable note of its own. This book collects the greater portion of that work for the first time, starting with St Cyril Road, named after a street in Bandra, a suburb of Bombay to which Chaudhuri's parents moved in the early eighties. On visits to them from the UK, where he was studying, Chaudhuri found his attention drawn to the minutiae of streets and balcony-level sightings with a sense of everyday discovery that he then brought to both his poems. In subsequent years he largely abandoned poetry,
Selected and New Poems
New and Selected Poems
New Selected Poems
New Selected Poems
New Selected Poems