Book cover for Distracted Geographies: An Archipelago of Intent by Sudeep Sen

Distracted Geographies

An Archipelago of Intent

2003 Released
224 Pages
3-4 Hours
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Wings Press (TX)ISBN 9780930324957

A tour-de-force of complex form, this novel explores the politics of body and text, desire and distraction, and the texture that dictates topography and cartography.

Sudeep Sen

Translated into 25 languages, Sudeep Sen's own works include Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems, Fractals: New & Selected Poems (Global Literary Festival Award for 'Literary Excellence & Best Book of the Year' 2017; Rabindranath Tagore Literature Prize shortlist 2020); Rain ('Best Books of the Year', The Statesman), Aria (A. K. Ramanujan Translation Award 2009, 'Best Books of the Year', Outlook magazine), and Kaifi Azmi: Poems Nazms (Bloomsbury 2019). Influential anthologies Editor him include The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry, World English Poetry, and Modern English Poetry by Younger Indians, and his work has appeared in TLS, The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Observer, and The Telegraph, and Newsweek, and been broadcast on the BBC, PBS, CNN, IBN, NDTV, All India Radio and Doordarshan.Sen is the only Asian who has been honoured by being asked to deliver the Derek Walcott Lecture and to read at the Nobel Laureate Festival (in 2013). www.sudeepsen.org

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