MANAN KAPOOR
Manan Kapoor was born in Shimla and lives in Cambridge, MA. He is a writer, poetry critic, and translator.
A Map of Longings: The Life and Works of Agha Shahid Ali (Yale University Press / Penguin Random House India) is his latest work. His first novel, The Lamentations of a Sombre Sky, was the finalist for the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar 2017.
He is an editor at Harvard Review. His writing and criticism have appeared in Boston Review, The LA Review of Books, Harvard Review, The Caravan Magazine, The Hindu, and Scroll among others. He is a Ledbury Poetry Critic and has recieved fellowships from James Merrill House and Sangam House Writers’ Residency.
A Map of Longings: The Life and Works of Agha Shahid Ali (Yale University Press / Penguin Random House India) is his latest work. His first novel, The Lamentations of a Sombre Sky, was the finalist for the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar 2017.
He is an editor at Harvard Review. His writing and criticism have appeared in Boston Review, The LA Review of Books, Harvard Review, The Caravan Magazine, The Hindu, and Scroll among others. He is a Ledbury Poetry Critic and has recieved fellowships from James Merrill House and Sangam House Writers’ Residency.
Kapoor is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at Harvard University. His research focuses on poetry and poetics. His doctoral project offers a formal and historical appraisal of poetic forms in modern and contemporary Anglophone literature. Drawing on a vast constellation of texts, it examines how poets across diverse cultural contexts, and historical periods interpret, revise, and subvert received forms. The study argues for a new critical vocabulary to better account for how verse forms transform across literary traditions, cultures, languages, and geographies. Engaging with distinct though interconnected literary traditions such as Urdu, Persian, English, French, Malay, Arabic and Sanskrit poetics, the project foregrounds the tension between formal fixity and poetic innovation, charting these forms’ historical routing across languages and their significance in shaping global lyric sensibilities.
Cover Image: “Brazilian Landscape” by Elizabeth Bishop
Cover Image: “Brazilian Landscape” by Elizabeth Bishop