Icelight - Hardcover

Hoskote, Ranjit

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670097934 ISBN 13: 9780670097937

Publisher: Penguin, 2023

Synopsis

Ranjit Hoskote's eighth collection of poetry enacts the experience of standing at the edge-of a life a landscape a world assuming new contours of going up in flames. Yet the protagonists of these poems also stand at the edge of epiphany. Icelight transits between audacious exploration and contemplative retreat doubt and belief melancholia and momentum. Hoskote's poetry unseals deep scales of geological time and strata of historical memory always aware of the perils currently confronting the planet. His poems are informed by the unfolding crises of war and ecocide. This is a book about transitions and departures eloquent in its acceptance of transcience in the face of mortality.

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About the Author

Ranjit Hoskote is a poet, cultural theorist and curator. His previous collections include Jonahwhale, Hunchprose among many others. He has received the Sahitya Akademi Golden Jubilee Award, the Sahitya Akademi Translation Award, the S.H Raza Award for Literature and the JLF researcher-in-residence at BAK, Utrecht. His poems have been translated into German, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Irish, Swedish, Spanish and Arabic.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670097934
• ISBN 13: 9780670097937
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 128