{"title":"Arvind Krishna Mehrotra","description":"\u003cp\u003eArvind Krishna Mehrotra’s works explore the richness of language and tradition with a deep engagement in poetry and literary arts. Readers can expect thoughtfully crafted verses that draw on diverse cultural influences, offering both introspection and profound artistic expression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRooted in the realm of \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e, Mehrotra's writing resonates with a contemplative voice that bridges the contemporary and the classical. His books invite readers to experience the nuances of poetic form and the enduring power of imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"arvind-krishna-mehrotra-by-arvind-krishna-mehrotra-9781925336078","title":"Arvind Krishna Mehrotra","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe think of contemporary Indian writing as sharing the same teeming quality as the country itself. But the simplicity and clarity of Arvind Krishna Mehrotra's poems point to another Indian literary tradition, one based on understatement and resonance. This is enhanced in Mehrotra's case by the influence of the surrealists and William Carlos Williams, and the Beats, the first enhancing his focus on the image, the second giving a colloquial ease to the language of his poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this respect, he is closely related to Australian poets who developed their craft in the 1970s and 1980s. His poetry discovers dignity and continuity in ordinary detail, while raising it to a magical or dream-like intensity. At the same time, it offers glimpses into his own life and history, fixing and extending the moment in modest yet compelling ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection brings together Mehrotra's poems written over more than four decades and includes many new poems, as well as his celebrated translations of the fifteenth-century Bhakti poet Kabir and those of more recent poets working in traditions similar to his own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMehrotra is the author of four previous books of poetry and a collection of essays, \u003cem\u003ePartial Recall\u003c\/em\u003e (2012), the author-translator of \u003cem\u003eSongs of Kabir\u003c\/em\u003e (2011), and the editor of the Oxford India anthology \u003cem\u003eTwelve Modern Indian Poets\u003c\/em\u003e (1992). He was raised in Allahabad and Dehradun, where he now lives, in northern India, in the foothills of the Himalayas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47383550230764,"sku":"9781925336078","price":34.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/13686113482873.jpg?v=1773375153"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/arvind-krishna-mehrotra.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}