Book of Rahim - Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna
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Arvind Krishna Mehrotra's new book of poems, Book of Rahim, is his first collection of new poetry in twenty-five years. It contains extraordinary records of the everyday, as well as a frequent reimagining of history that makes it as commonplace as a relative or a piece of furniture, and all the more strange and unrepeatable because of that. These involve Mehrotra inhabiting the voice and time of an ageing Ghalib (author of a memorable diary reflecting on the events of the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857); his revisiting Abd al-Rahim Khan-i-Khanan (1556-1627), a Baharlu Turk, an important figure in the…mehr

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Arvind Krishna Mehrotra's new book of poems, Book of Rahim, is his first collection of new poetry in twenty-five years. It contains extraordinary records of the everyday, as well as a frequent reimagining of history that makes it as commonplace as a relative or a piece of furniture, and all the more strange and unrepeatable because of that. These involve Mehrotra inhabiting the voice and time of an ageing Ghalib (author of a memorable diary reflecting on the events of the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857); his revisiting Abd al-Rahim Khan-i-Khanan (1556-1627), a Baharlu Turk, an important figure in the Mughal nobility during the reigns of Akbar and Jehangir; and his discovery of objects and letters from his family home in Lahore. The result is a frayed immediacy that hefty historical novels find difficult to achieve. (Amit Chaudhuri)
Autorenporträt
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra is one of India's finest English language poets, and an acclaimed translator. He is the author of seven previous books of poetry and two collections of essays, Partial Recall (2012) and Translating the Indian Past (2019), the author-translator of Songs of Kabir (2011), and the editor of the Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets (1992), A History of Indian Literature in English (2003), Collected Poems in English by Arun Kolatkar (2010), and The Book of Indian Essays: Two Hundred Years of English Prose (2020). He was raised in Allahabad and now lives in Dehra Dun, in the foothills of the Himalayas.