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  • Jeet Thayil
  • Language: English
  • Author: Jeet Thayil
  • Publisher: Penguin Books
  • Publishing Date:2003
  • ISBN13: 9780143031178
  • ISBN10: 0143031171
  • Pages: 96
  • Edition : 01
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Category: Literature and Fiction
  • SUPC: 1163850

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The narrator in these poems abandons the sectarian histories of 1990s� Bombay for the relative calm of New York, only to find himself a witness to September 11, 2001. In the faux prologue poem �
About the Author
�, he stands �on Sixth, watching ruin, with a handful of rain and a prophecy�, a citizen of no country except the republic that gives the book its title. English here is more than language�it is a metaphor for divinity, and it holds a hard-won tenderness for all things living. Jeet Thayil�s second full-length collection links images of water, addiction and forgiveness; poems that evoke multiple outsider perspectives are set in landscapes as various as Hong Kong, Doune (Scotland), Pashupatinath (Nepal), Bombay, and, always, New York City.

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