20 books | 5 years | 1 pathbreaking collection
The poems in My Dead Flowers are rivers; they meander, change course, are a swirl of eddies and back-eddies. They snake through the streets of Paris, New York City, Calcutta. And they sing of love - of its unruliness; its faltering ways; of its tenacious hold over memory. Remind me that I was once alive, Buku Sarkar says, because of you.
These are poems that reveal themselves not only in verse - hurried jottings on paper - but as photographs, each 'a reminder / there's nothing left'.
Thayil Editions Number Two is an invocation of Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal. But its preoccupations have less to do with good and evil, decadence and death, than with coming out alive - 'Once you've stood in/ the middle of a park / With no clothes on, / You can do anything.'
About the Author
Buku Sarkar is a writer and photographer whose work has appearedin various magazines and journals including NYRB, n+1, RaleighReview, Threepenny Review, The New York Times,Huffington Post and Mint Lounge. Her photographs have been exhibitedat ICP in New York, Art Basel, Miami, and venues across the US and Europe andshe has featured in Fleur and Arbor magazine and The Photographers' Gallery,London. She received the Andrew Nelson Lytle Award for best short story in2021. Her photobook Photowali Didi was published in 2022. Buku lives inKolkata and New York.
Jeet Thayil is a poet, novelist, librettist and musician. He was born into a Syrian Christian family in Kerala. As a boy, he travelled through much of the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia with his father, T.J.S. George, a writer and editor. He worked as a journalist for twenty-one years in Bombay, Bangalore, Hong Kong and New York City. In 2005, he began to write fiction. The first instalment of his Bombay Trilogy, Narcopolis, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, won the DSC Prize, and became a bestseller. His book of poems These Errors Are Correct won the Sahitya Akademi Award. His musi
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