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English: Poems With CD by Jeet Thayil

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4.0

Jeet Thayil's poetry is sublime, lifted out of the terrestrial by a powerful undercurrent of loss, dislocation, melancholy - but not cynicism. Even at his most unmoored, there is the mild dawn. Besides the unfortunate inconsistency of the Ache chapter, this is a collection of poetry that refuses to live merely on the page
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