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Arvind Krishna Mehrotra (born 1947 [1]) is an Indian poet, anthologist, literary critic and translator. Biography. Arvind Krishna Mehrotra was born in Lahore in 1947.
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra’s recent books include Collected Poems (Shearsman Books, 2022) and Ghalib: A Diary (New Walk Editions, 2022).
Born in Lahore in 1947, Mehrotra is the author of seven volumes of poetry – including Nine Enclosures (1976), Distance in Statute Miles (1982), Middle Earth (1984) and The Transfiguring Places (1998) – as well as three of translations, most recently Songs of Kabir (2011).
Dec 4, 2020 · Born in 1947, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra is probably more suited to anthologise than most, given his rich experience of editing, including A Concise History of Indian Literature in English (2017), An Illustrated History of Indian Literature in English (2003) and The Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets (1997).
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, a well-known poet, translator, and critic-historian, has here put together an unusually sensitive selection of fine verse in English by his best contemporaries. Complete...
A History of Indian Literature in English. Arvind Krishna Mehrotra. Columbia University Press, 2003 - Education - 406 pages. For anyone interested in the story of English in India, or in the...
Poet, translator, essayist, and editor Arvind Krishna Mehrotra was born in Lahore and educated at the universities of Allahabad and Bombay. He is the author of four books of poems, Nine Enclosures (Clearing House, 1976), Distance in Statute Miles (Clearing House, 1982), Middle Earth (OUP, 1984) and The Transfiguring Places (Ravi Dayal, 1998).
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra is one of India’s finest English language poets, and an acclaimed translator. He is the author of five previous books of poetry and a collection of essays, Partial Recall (2012), the author-translator of Songs of Kabir (2011), and the editor of the Oxford India anthology, Twelve Modern Indian Poets (1992).
Aug 1, 2017 · In a moving new poem about literary labor and literary survival from the latest edition of his Collected Poems, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra (2016) reflects on “his” generation of poets which came about in “sixties Bombay” and which is emblematically represented by the publishing cooperative Clearing House 1 set up in 1976 by four poets and close fri...
Oct 7, 2023 · In an essay on AK Ramanujan (in a soon-to-be-published volume), Arvind Krishna Mehrotra writes, “When someone like Ramanujan translates, it is often his own poem he’s composing by other means.” One might say the same of Mehrotra.
