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English and Apocalypso Flipbook
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English and Apocalypso Flipbook

Jeet Thayil
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Many of the poems in English are set in New York City around the events of September 11, 2001. In the faux prologue poem 'About the Author', the narrator finds himself 'on Sixth, watching ruin, with / a handful of rain and a prophecy': a citizen of no country except the republic that gives the book its title, the Republic of English. Here, English is more than a language. It is a river of the world.

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd
Country
IN
Date
5 September 2023
Pages
160
ISBN
9780670097531

Many of the poems in English are set in New York City around the events of September 11, 2001. In the faux prologue poem 'About the Author', the narrator finds himself 'on Sixth, watching ruin, with / a handful of rain and a prophecy': a citizen of no country except the republic that gives the book its title, the Republic of English. Here, English is more than a language. It is a river of the world.

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd
Country
IN
Date
5 September 2023
Pages
160
ISBN
9780670097531

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