Ranjit Hoskote Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Author of Hunchprose, Jonahwhale/The Atlas of Lost Beliefs; I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal Ded; Icelight. Alumnus: @UIIWP 1995. https://t.co/1Lhr382nad

Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship
Gershom Scholem
How amazing that this sad, forlorn man was yet blessed with friends who secured his life's work, even after he died alone, at a border, by his own hand. "There are enough people for whom his memory will remain unforgettable."(Gershom Scholem to Theodor Adorno, on Walter Benjamin) https://t.co/CPPydfxHB0
Paperback, 2003
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: [White]: Poems, Trevor Ketner](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9780820360393.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1749851257)
[White]: Poems
Trevor Ketner
I am honoured to present my new book of poems, ICELIGHT, published by Wesleyan University Press @weslpress , at #AWP23 @awpwriter on Saturday: 11 March, in the wonderful company of fellow poets Rae Armantrout, Evie Shockley, Sarah Blake, and Trevor Ketner. https://t.co/lrqNUDlX1R
Paperback, 2021
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Space Gulliver: Poems
Sampurna Chattarji
"Joy Goswami's visionary poetry shuttles between the delights of epiphany and the tremors of apocalypse." Sharing here, again, my Foreword to Sampurna Chattarji's superb translation of Joy-da's prose poems, *After Death Comes Water*. https://t.co/0lHUrdSNdF
Paperback, 2015
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After Death Comes Water: Selected Prose Poems
Joy Goswami
"Joy Goswami's visionary poetry shuttles between the delights of epiphany and the tremors of apocalypse." Sharing here, again, my Foreword to Sampurna Chattarji's superb translation of Joy-da's prose poems, *After Death Comes Water*. https://t.co/0lHUrdSNdF
Paperback, 2021
$13.00$6.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Dramatick Writings of Will. Shakspere: With the Notes of all the Various Commentators: 4
William Shakespeare
Horatio: Have after. To what issue will this come? Marcellus: Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. Horatio: Heaven will direct it. - William Shakespeare, 'Hamlet' (Act I, Scene 4)
Paperback, 2018
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Hamlet
William Shakespeare
Horatio: Have after. To what issue will this come? Marcellus: Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. Horatio: Heaven will direct it. - William Shakespeare, 'Hamlet' (Act I, Scene 4)
Paperback, 2015
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A Name for Every Leaf: Selected Poems, 1959-2015
Ashok Vajpeyi
"Ashok Vajpeyi’s lines speak to us of the world of asymmetries and anxieties in which we live, but also point to continents of hope and dream..." Sharing, again, my Afterword to Ashok-ji's *A Name for Every Leaf*, beautifully translated by Rahul Soni. https://t.co/UpBJHWRDXz
Paperback, 2016
$15.00$7.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hamlet: The Oxford Shakespearehamlet
William Shakespeare
Horatio: Have after. To what issue will this come? Marcellus: Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. Horatio: Heaven will direct it. - William Shakespeare, 'Hamlet' (Act I, Scene 4)
Paperback, 2008
$10.95$5.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Grimus
Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie's first novel, Grimus (1975), in which science fiction meets Sufi allegory and Native American, Norse and Hindu myth. Published by Gollancz, London. My copy, treasured over 33 years, is the US edition, published by The Overlook Press (1979) and reissued. https://t.co/2UCCbNGUKT
Paperback, 2003
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