About the Book: These Errors Are Correct : Poems
A meditation on grief, These Errors are Correct is Jeet Thayils most intimate
work to date. In poems of tenderness and rage, time blurs into a continuous
present visited by Billy the Kid, the Buddha, Lata Mangeshkar, Jesus and
Beethoven, by unnamed protagonists for whom faith and addiction are
interchangeable, and by a remote god-like figure who will lick / your wound with
his infected tongue. A range of fixed and invented forms--rhymed syllabics,
terza rima, ghazals, sonnets, the sestina, the canzone, stealth rhymes--make for
a virtuosic, haunting collection. Originally published in 2008, the book has
been out of