I'll Have It Here : Poems

Original and formally inventive' - SALMAN RUSHDIE The GuardianI'll Have It Here Jeet Thayil's long-awaited new collection of poems -- his first since the Sahitya Akademi Award-winning These Errors Are Correct (2008) -- is a dazzle of rhyme in the orchard of song a contemporary survey of history and culture and an exercise in spiritual jaywalking along the streets of New York City and New Delhi and Budapest at the foot of Orion with the likes of Gandhi Spiderman Emily Dickinson St Gregory and Ibn Battuta. Poetry is rarely so full of compassion and contempt exhilaration and restraint. I'll Have It Here adds new poetics and politics to Thayil's already wide-ranging body of work.