About Ravi Shankar

Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions by Maurice Manning. Yale University Press, 2001. Small Gods of Grief by Laura-Anne Bosselaar. Boa Editions, 2001. Saunter by Joshua Mckinney. University of Georgia Press, 2001. As Reviewed By: Ravi Shankar Every year, with the regularity of migrating birds, a new flock of first poetry books takes wing, usually with [...]

A Close Reading of Two Contemporary Indian Poets As Reviewed By: Ravi Shankar The world’s largest secular democracy has been exporting its letters in English for a few literary generations, but in the wake of a few luminaries—Rabindranath Tagore or more recently, Arundhati Roy—many strident, lyrical voices have gone unrecognized (after all, this wave of [...]

Crucible by Daniel Bosch. Winner of the Boston Review’s First Annual Poetry Contest. Handsel Books, 2002. Discography by Sean Singer. Yale Series of Younger Poets. Yale University Press, 2002. As Reviewed By: Ravi Shankar Daniel Bosch, who won the Boston Review’s annual poetry contest for his first book Crucible, is a “poet’s poet”, a distinction [...]

Notes from the Divided Country by Suji Kwock Kim. Louisiana State University Press, 2003. 20 Poems by Seán MacFalls. Peregrine Press, 2001. Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive by Patrick Rosal. Persea Books, 2003. As Reviewed By: Ravi Shankar Like the saw of a New England farmer, transplanted from rockier soil, when the leaves turn fiery [...]

A Close Reading of Two Contemporary Indian Poets As Reviewed By: Ravi Shankar The world’s largest secular democracy has been exporting its letters in English for a few literary generations, but in the wake of a few luminaries-Rabindranath Tagore or more recently, Arundhati Roy-many strident, lyrical voices have gone unrecognized (after all, this wave of [...]