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Reading @ Sarai: "Vanishing Acts"
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Sarai-CSDS and Penguin Books invite you to a reading by Ranjit Hoskote
6:00 P.M., Tuesday, 18 July 2006, Sarai-CSDS seminar room

Ranjit Hoskote will read from his new collection of poetry, "Vanishing
Acts: New and Selected Poems, 1985-2005", Penguin Books India, 2006.
Shuddhabrata Sengupta will introduce Ranjit Hoskote and moderate the
discussion.


‘It is the way he hangs on to a metaphor, and the subtlety with which he
does it, that draws my admiration (not to mention envy)… Hoskoté’s poems
bear the “watermark of fable”: behind each cluster of images, a story;
behind each story, a parable. I haven’t read a better poetry volume in
years.’—Keki N. Daruwalla, reviewing The Sleepwalker’s Archive in The
Hindu

"Vanishing Acts by Ranjit Hoskoté, winner of the Sahitya Akademi Golden
Jubilee Award 2004, brings together some of his best poetry, drawn from
his three published collections, along with a substantial body of new
poems. While continuing to explore the interplay between the epic,
devastating sweep of historical events and an intimate, often vulnerable,
self, his new poems dwell on emigrants, fugitives, interpreters, double
agents - survivors who walk the fragile border between eternity and
transience. Experimenting with a variety of forms - ranging from the
canticle to the cycle, the adapted sonnet to the passionate apostrophe —
Hoskoté expresses the anxieties and delights of a transitive self that
constantly shifts location, and evokes strikingly the worlds that can open
up at the edges of memory, identity and language."

[Ranjit Hoskote is a poet, cultural theorist and independent curator. He
is the author of ten books; most recently, of The Crucible of Painting:
The Art of Jehangir Sabavala (Eminence Designs/ National Gallery of Modern
Art, 2005), Baiju Parthan: A User’s Manual (Afterimage, 2006) and
Vanishing Acts: New and Selected Poems, 1985-2005 (Penguin, 2006). His
poems will appear in German translation later this year, as Die Ankunft
der Vögel (Hanser Verlag, 2006).

Hoskote has curated numerous exhibitions of Indian and Asian art,
including a mid-career retrospective of Atul Dodiya (Japan Foundation:
Tokyo, 2001) and a major retrospective of Jehangir Sabavala (National
Gallery of Modern Art: New Delhi & Bombay, 2005-06).

Hoskote was a Fellow of the International Writing Program of the
University of Iowa, USA (1995). He has also held a writing residency at
the Villa Waldberta, Munich (2003). A recipient of the Sanskriti Award for
Literature (1996), Hoskote was honoured with the Sahitya Akademi Golden
Jubilee Award by India’s National Academy of Letters, in 2004.]


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