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'''''Jejuri''''' is a series of poems written by Indian poet [[Arun Kolatkar]]. Consist of 31 poetic sequence, ''Jejuri'' depicts Kolatkar's visit to [[Jejuri]], a city in [[Pune district|Pune]], which the poet visited in 1964. It was first published in ''Opinion Literary Quarterly'' in 1974, and issued in book-form in 1976. ''Jejuri'' won the [[Commonwealth Poetry Prize]] in 1977.<ref name="KMGeorge1997">{{cite book|last=Ramakrishnan|first=E. V.|editor-last=George|editor-first=K. M.|editor-link=K. M. George (writer)|chapter=Jejuri|title=Masterpieces of Indian Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dXFOAAAAYAAJ|volume=1|year=1997|publisher=[[National Book Trust]]|location=New Delhi|isbn=81-237-1978-7|page=228–230}}</ref><br />
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The poem is made up of a series of often short fragments which describe the experiences of a secular visitor to the ruins of Jejuri. It is one of the better known poems in modern Indian literature.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}<br />
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==Comments and criticism==<br />
''Jejury'' is a sequence of simple but stunningly beautiful poems and is one of the major work in modern Indian literature.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nybooks.com/books/imprints/classics/jejuri/|title=Review by Amit Chaudhury in ''New York Book Review''}}</ref> The poems are remarkable for their haunting quality. However, modern critics have analysed the difficulty of readers in interpreting the Jejury poems in their proper context.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Reading Post Colonial Poetry - ''Jejury'' by Kolatkar|journal=The Journal of Commonwealth Literature|volume=47|issue=2|pages=229–243|doi=10.1177/0021989412446018|date=June 2012|last1=Bird|first1=Emma}}</ref> Kolatkar's use of cross-cultural and trans-historical imagery posits ''Jejuri'' within a macrocosmic, global framework which forces the reader to adopt an interpretive position not determined by national or cultural preconceptions.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Indian poetry]]<br />
*[http://jcl.sagepub.com/content/47/2/229.short "Journal of Commonwealth Literature - Review of Jejury"]<br />
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==References==<br />
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== Bibliography ==<br />
* [[Amit Chaudhuri|Chaudhuri, Amit]]. On Strangeness in Indian Writing. ''The Hindu'', 2005. [https://web.archive.org/web/20051018032608/http://www.hindu.com/lr/2005/10/02/stories/2005100200130300.htm]<br />
* Kolatkar, Arun. ''Jejuri''. Introduction by Amit Chaudhuri. New York Review Books Classics, 2005. {{ISBN|1-59017-163-2}}<br />
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