News From Nowhere Radical & Community Bookshop

• home
• browse books
• book details:

Jejuri

by Arun Kolatkar - £8.99  The New York Review of Books, Inc (2006)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9781590171639 | ISBN 10: 1590171632

A sequence of stunningly simple but haunting poems, Jejuri is one of the great books of modern India.
 
Jejuri is a site of pilgrimage 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, and many shrines, and mythic history of sages and gods, Kolatkar's poem presents an image 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 un a degenerate world.
 
Spare, comic, sorrowful, singing, Jejuri is the work of a writer with a unique and visionary voice.

" Jejuri, Arun Kolatkar's sprightly, clear-sighted, deeply felt poem cycle, is widely recognised in India as a modern classic. I am delighted that this invaluable new edition makes Kolatkar's work available to an international readership. It is one of the great treasures of modern Indian literature."
(Salman Rushdie)

(Price & availability last checked: June 2018)

Order by email

×

Jejuri - by Arun Kolatkar

Please fill in the order form, & we will reply as soon as we can to confirm your order & tell you how long it will take. Choose between collection from our bookshop or mail-order, for which we charge postage at cost, at current Royal Mail rates

Select type of order: Collect & pay in the shop - I live in or can visit Liverpool Mail-order - send me a card payment link Mail-order - I will pay another way & give details in the notes section

Your name:

Please fill out this field.

Your email address

Please check carefully that you have entered your email correctly

Please fill out this field.

Your phone number (required for order as back-up contact method):

Please check carefully that you have entered your phone number correctly.

Please fill out this field.

Notes (optional - for additional message or information about your order):

Close

Enquire about this book

×

Jejuri

by Arun Kolatkar

Your name:

Please fill out this field.

Your email address

Please check carefully that you have entered your email correctly

Please fill out this field.

Your phone number (optional):

Your message:

Please fill out this field.

(optional) If you are interested in ordering this book, would your order be for collection or mail-order? Select type of order : Collect from the shop - I live in or can visit Liverpool Mail-order - send by post

Close

In booklists: Black and Asian Poets, World Poetry - Asia,
In categories: Poetry & Writing, World - Asia,