Life Cycles

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.