The Cosmonaut In Herge’s Rocket – Arjun Rajendran

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In this collection, Arjun Rajendran is unapologetically cosmopolitan, yet rooted in the gritty realities of Indian city streets and our ghostly middle-class parlours, Rajendran’s poems excel in the juxtaposition of seemingly disparate elements, geographies, texts and tropes. Yet it is in these juxtapositions that Rajendran finds both the rhythm of a dirge that would mourn our broken contemporaneity, and celebrations of small moments of solidarity and creativity. With this collection, Rajendran provides a definitive push to the very idea of contemporary Indian English poetry.” – Nandini Dhar