{"product_id":"9781784109257","title":"Angular Desire","description":"\u003cp\u003ePoetry Book Society Spring 2020 Special Commendation. A handful of writers defines the canon of postcolonial anglophone poetry in India. Srinivas Rayaprol has generally been omitted from the list. But his recently-published correspondence with William Carlos Williams and with the publisher James Laughlin reveals an accomplished, complex and enigmatic figure torn between opposing forces. His Brahmin Indian background, his profession as a civil engineer in a newly-independent country, were at odds with his Western education, literary vocation, and demonic impulses. Such contradictions are expressed in his intense poetry, here restored to print, providing insights into Anglo-Indian and American writing, and a unique contribution to international literary modernism. He was influenced by Williams; he resisted (though at Stanford) the formal discipline of Yvor Winters. Touched by Stevens, he also read the European modernists and learned from them. His poetry marks a clear break with the established Indian lineage of British literary influences. Acknowledging the awkwardness of the language, Vidyan Ravinthiran, as a writer, cherishes in the poems `a voice that isn't wholly and perpetually self-secure'.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CARCANET CLASSICS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51185006444818,"sku":"9781784109257","price":34.39,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0508\/3093\/4173\/files\/9781784109257.jpg?v=1774733041","url":"https:\/\/bargainbooks.com.au\/products\/9781784109257","provider":"Bargain Books Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}