Vinay Dharwadker is the author of Sunday at the Lodi Gardens (Viking, 1994), and has recently completed his second collection, Someone Else’s Paradise: Poems 1971-2001. Among the books he has edited or coedited are The Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry (1994), The Collected Poems of A. K. Ramanujan (1995), and The Collected Essays of A. K. Ramanujan (1999), all published by Oxford University Press. Most recently, he has edited Cosmopolitan Geographies: New Locations in Literature and Culture (Routledge,
2001) for the English Institute, Harvard University. Over the past two decades, his poems and translations of modern Indian poetry have been published in Daedalus, Hudson
Review, London Magazine, Translation, TriQuarterly, World Literature Today, and elsewhere. His latest essays appear in A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry (Blackwell, 2001) and Comparative Literature Studies (2002). His book of translations,
Kabir: The Weaver’s Songs, will be published in the Penguin Classics series this fall. He teaches South Asian literature and is director of the Center for South Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Poetry
Summer 2003
A Flat in Jaipur
A rainbow film glistens on the water standing in a pool dark as engine oil at the mouth of the street. At nightfall anorexic cows, their ribs carved in relief […]
Poetry
Summer 2003
Life Cycles
In Chattisgarh, near Bilaspur Clouds drift low above the monsoon town: loose wads of wool, not yet spun to yarn, swirling slowly in the wind. The sky drips all day, […]