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Jejuri (New York Review Books Classics)

by Aruna Kolatakara

Jejuri (New York Review Books Classics) Cover

ISBN13: 9781590171639
ISBN10: 1590171632
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Jejuri is one of the great books of modern India, a sequence of stunningly simple but haunting poems that has established itself deep in the hearts of Indian readers, including Salman Rushdie and Vikram Seth. 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 that is as crassly commercial as it is holy, as ruinous and rapacious as it is ancient and enduring. Evoking the town?s streets, crowded with beggars, cripples, street vendors, children at play, predatory priests, and pompous officials, and the barren stony landscape that surrounds it, but also its mysterious shrines, mythic history, and associated tales of sages and gods, Kolatkar?s poem offers a rich description of modern India that is at the same time a complex act of devotion.

Review:

"Kolatkar (1932 — 2004) became a leading literary light in India, writing in Marathi and in English about the contradictions of the developing subcontinent. Composed in English, this fastidious, ironic lyric cycle helped make Kolatkar a national, if not international, star when published in India in 1974. Its impressionistic and anecdotal poems describe a visit to the town of the book's title, a Hindu pilgrimage site in Maharashtra state where ancient stones and holy men coexist with modern consumer culture and media, with their 'slashed editorials/ and promises of eternal youth.' Some poems retell (or undermine) local legends; others simply describe, using everything from jumbled typography to songlike stanzas to depict the site's disjunctions. There are no notes to explain place-specific references. And Kolatkar's techniques, like those of many British poets, may strike American readers as understated — simultaneously casual and terse: 'I killed my mother/ for her skin./ I must say/ it didn't take much/ to make this pouch/ I keep turmeric in.' Kolatkar's technical assurance and variety, and his decidedly vivid townscapes, however, ought to compel new readers on their own." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)

Synopsis:

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.

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bluebells_an, February 24, 2007 (view all comments by bluebells_an)
This is a fantastic example of dicriptive poems.I personally loved it because i am a indian and can relate to it very easily.I like the chapter on the bus, it is very straight and striking.The wrightings are crisp and yet demand attentive thinking.

"at the end of the bumpy ride
with your face on either side
when you get off the bus

you don't step inside the old man's head."

These lines remained in my head long after i finished reading them.i recommend the book to all poetry lovers and deep thinkers.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9781590171639
Introduction:
Chaudhuri, Amit
Publisher:
New York Review of Books
Introduction:
Chaudhuri, Amit
Author:
Kolatkar, Arun
Author:
Kolatakara, Aruna
Subject:
English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Subject:
Inspirational & Religious
Subject:
POETRY / Inspirational & Religious
Series:
New York Review Books Classics
Publication Date:
November 2005
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
57
Dimensions:
8.02x5.08x.26 in. .24 lbs.

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