CENTRAL TIME

RANJIT HOSKOTE

ISBN 10: 0670086819 / ISBN 13: 9780670086818

Published by VIKING (PENGUIN), 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: CENTRAL TIME
• Publisher: VIKING (PENGUIN)
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670086819
• ISBN 13: 9780670086818
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: International Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

In Central Time, Ranjit Hoskote becomes the storyteller of a turbulent epoch. We meet Ovid and Ghalib, poets in exile or eclipse, in these poems, which are by turns elliptical, conversational and narrative. We meet painters who betray their art, and sculptors who are betrayed by theirs. Fascinated by the enigmas of time, memory and evanescence that art invokes, Hoskote addresses a range of artists including Bihzad, Magritte, Masaki Fujihata and Ranbir Kaleka. At the same time, he retains his affection for the natural world, celebrating the textures and intensities of sensuous experience: the roughness of stone, the dance of light, the flowering of touch and the taste of salt and cinnamon. A testament to a present shimmering like a mirage between contested pasts and vexed futures, this book pivots around moments of encounter: a defiant squirrel in Anuradhapura, an enigmatic collection of objects in a Berlin museum or a man discovering a mass grave near Kabul. Written between 2006 and 2014, the hundred poems that form Central Time resonate with the crises of war, genocide, terror, forced migration and the precariousness of belonging.

About the Author

Ranjit Hoskote's collections of poetry include Vanishing Acts: New and Selected Poems 1985-2005 and Die Ankunft der Vögel. His translation of the fourteenth-century Kashmiri mystic Lal Ded has been published as I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal Ded. He is the editor of Dom Moraes: Selected Poems, the first annotated critical edition of a major Anglophone Indian poet's work.
Hoskote's poems have been published in numerous anthologies, including Language for a New Century, The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets, and The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry. His poems have appeared in many journals, including Akzente, Fulcrum, Green Integer Review, Iowa Review, nthposition, Poetry Review (London), Prairie Schooner and Wespennest.