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Very Close to Pleasure, There’s a Sick Cat: And Other Poems
Publisher:
Seagull Books London Ltd
| Author:
Shakti Chattopadhyay
| Language:
English
| Format:
Hardback
Publisher:
Seagull Books London Ltd
Author:
Shakti Chattopadhyay
Language:
English
Format:
Hardback
₹499 ₹424
Save: 15%
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Category: Literature & Translations
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In the early 196s, the Hungry Generation revitalized Bengali poetry in Calcutta, liberating it from the fetters of scholarship and the fog of punditry and freeing it to explore new forms, language, and subjects. Shakti Chattopadhyay was a cofounder of the movement, and his poems remain vibrant and surprising more than a half century later. In his “urban pastoral” lines, we encounter street colloquialisms alongside high diction, a combination that at the time was unprecedented. Loneliness, anxiety, and dislocation trouble this verse, but they are balanced by a compelling belief in the redemptive power of beauty. This book presents more than one hundred of Chattopadhyay’s poems, introducing an international audience to one of the most prominent and important Bengali poets of the twentieth century.
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In the early 196s, the Hungry Generation revitalized Bengali poetry in Calcutta, liberating it from the fetters of scholarship and the fog of punditry and freeing it to explore new forms, language, and subjects. Shakti Chattopadhyay was a cofounder of the movement, and his poems remain vibrant and surprising more than a half century later. In his “urban pastoral” lines, we encounter street colloquialisms alongside high diction, a combination that at the time was unprecedented. Loneliness, anxiety, and dislocation trouble this verse, but they are balanced by a compelling belief in the redemptive power of beauty. This book presents more than one hundred of Chattopadhyay’s poems, introducing an international audience to one of the most prominent and important Bengali poets of the twentieth century.
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Shakti Chattopadhyay (1933-95) was a critically acclaimed and popular Bengali writer and poet. Arunava Sinha is a translator who lives in New Delhi.
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