English Poems

Poems

Plot

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.