After

By Vivek Narayanan

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About the book

After is a collection of poems inspired by Valmiki’s Ramayana, one of India’s foundational epics and a story cycle of incalculable historical importance.

But After does not just come after the Ramayana. On each successive page, Vivek Narayanan brings the resources of contemporary English poetry to bear on the Sanskrit epic. In a work that warrants comparison with Christopher Logue’s and Alice Oswald’s reshapings of Homer, and Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red, Narayanan allows the ancient voice of the poem to engage with modern experience, initiating a transformative conversation across time.

Leaping, fierce poems that move in several directions, leaving the reader besieged and dazzled in equal measure

TISHANI DOSHI, The Poetry Review

[T]his timeless epic … [has] taken a new shape in Narayanan’s formidable English

ROSANNA WARREN

[A] tour de force, radicalizing our apprehension of beauty

KEVIN McGRATH, Harvard Review

The only thing more amazing than Narayanan’s ambition is his realization of that ambition

VIJAY SESHADRI

Pages: 624

Available in: Paperback

Language: English

Vivek Narayanan

Vivek Narayanan’s books of poetry include Universal Beach and Life and Times of Mr S. He has been a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University and a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library. A full-length collection of his poems in Swedish translation was published in 2015 by the legendary Stockholm-based Wahlström & Widstrand. He currently teaches creative writing at George Mason University and is a member of the editorial board at Poetry Daily, where he helps to select poems and writes about world poetry.

Leaping, fierce poems that move in several directions, leaving the reader besieged and dazzled in equal measure - TISHANI DOSHI, The Poetry Review

[T]his timeless epic … [has] taken a new shape in Narayanan’s formidable English - ROSANNA WARREN

[A] tour de force, radicalizing our apprehension of beauty - KEVIN McGRATH, Harvard Review

The only thing more amazing than Narayanan’s ambition is his realization of that ambition - VIJAY SESHADRI