The Reverse Tree
The Reverse Tree is a thin volume of six personal essays by Bengali poet and translator Kiriti Sengupta. There are poems scattered throughout the book, maybe ten or fifteen of them, which serve to...
Category: Indian Poetry
Breakfast for a champion poet
Dilip Chitre and his first of twenty breakfasts towards death: a new poembuster entry. http://poetsandartists.com/2013/03/12/breakfast-of-a-champion-poet/ Enjoy it!
Indo-Anglican Lamentation
W.B. Yeats once wrote in an introduction to a Rabindranath Tagore book written in English, “These prose translations from Rabindranath Tagore have stirred my blood as nothing has for years.” Tagore is Bengali, one...
Revolution’s Habit
I was in one of those small intellectual bookstores about two months ago — you know, those small business ones where they shelve their books with natural history and economic reform and a customer can’t find...