Review: Anand Thakore's books of poetry

A couple of months ago I'd review Anand Thakore's books of poems, Elephant Bathing and Mughal Sequence, in Biblio. Since it wasn't available to read online, I didn't post the review here. But since then, Nandini has found it online somewhere, and I thought I'd link to it, even if not post the whole thing here.

Re-reading it, I realise that much of what I've said is a result of organising my own manuscript; perhaps I'd read the books differently if I hadn't been reading them in light of my own anxieties.

There are a lot of related questions and thoughts but this is not the time to air them. Perhaps I need to write a whole, separate essay with those ideas.

For now, here's the link to my piece on Anand Thakore's books. (pdf alert!).

ETA: I have just realised that Blogger is not allowing me to put html for italics in the post title field. Wtf, Google?

Biblio

The new issue of Biblio is out. Table of Contents here and the abstract of my essay of Meena Alexander's Poetics of Dislocation here.

Some - many - of the articles are free to read. Mine is not one of them. I may decide to put it up here at some point, perhaps when the next issue is live. In the meantime, if you want to read it regardless, you could consider buying it online or offline, whichever you prefer. It's one way of helping Biblio survive.