About the Book Jatayu, Che Guevara and Other Poems: This book presents selection of by Sitanshu Yashaschandra, leading Indian poet today and major creative of contemporary poetry and theatre. Poems included here have selected and translated the poet from his Akademi Award-winning Jatayu and from other much celebrated books, Odyssus.nu Holesu, and Mahaabhoj, ranging from 1976 to 2019. The poems this book polyphonic and polysemic. Evoking both Mythology and History, engaging at deeply personal and widely public levels, these are poems passionate and courageous explorations our 'being' and 'becoming'. Utilizing both modern and dictions and poetic genres, like Raso, Akhyana, Katha, Bhadauli, but also Kavya, Khanda Kavya and Lyric, these poems explore and present areas of overlap, contradiction, and camouflage contemporary inner and external. They explore wide range of feelings and thought that our contemporary They explore its social, psychological political dimensions are, when needed, confrontational being instrumental. dynamic semiotic field of contemporary poetry Indian languages, book introduces range of images, symbols and signs its own, intimately yet boldly global.
About the Author One of the most engaging, innovative and celebrated voices of contemporary Indian Sitanshu Yashaschandra 1941, Bhuj, Kutch,) is poet of relentless explorations many dimensions realties, inner and external, mythical and historical, psychological political, linguistic and semiotic. A Gujarati poet. critic, editor and translator, received many pan-Indian honours Sahitya Akademi Award (1987), Kabir Samman (Bharat Bhavan), Gangadhar Samman (Odisha), Kavi Kusumagraj Award (Maharashtra), Samman and Padmashri. was elected President Gujarati Sahitya Parishad 2017 and has been honoured with Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak and Gujarat Purakar,. Equally at home in classical Sanskrit literature, medieval Gujarati and modern world literature, Sitanshu has received Fulbright (1968) Ford Fellowship (1971) and has earned Master's and Doctoral degree in Comparative from Indiana University Bloomington USA in Gujarati Sanskrit literatures from Mumbai University. worked as Professor the University Baroda, Vice chancellor Saurashtra University and Chief Editor Encyclopaedia Indian Literature Sahitya Akademi. He Visiting Professor Sorbonne University, Paris; Chicago University and University Pennsylvania: Gujarat Vidyapith and Jadavpur University. He been associated parent trustee with the Spastics Society of India, for decades now, working for Children.
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