Author: Sankha Ghosh
Kalyan Ray/
Translator(s): Kalyan Ray
Publisher: Sahitya Akademi
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 90
ISBN/UPC (if available): 812602179IX
Description
The voices in Sankha Ghosh's poems are various and splendidly modulated. Many are reflective, several corrosive with irony, and some ache with music and in sensuality. The finest of Sankha Ghosh's poems move in a dazzle of clarity, a plainness beyond gaudy colors, within what Rilke, in a letter about Cézanne, called 'the diamond zones.'
ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR
Kalyan Ray was born in Kolkata and educated at Presidency College, Kolkata, Delhi University, and at the University of Rochester where he earned a doctorate in literature.
He has taught at St Stephen’s College of the City University of New York, and is currently a Professor of English in New Jersey. His poems and translations have appeared at the US and India; some have been anthologized. His novel Eastwards was published by Penguin in 2004.
Contents
Introduction
Acknowledgement
Translator’s Preface
Oarbeats Amid Ribs
The Puppet Dance
Companion
Rain
Stone
Pyre
Offering
Old Crones Gather
At the Bend of the Road
Fallen
On that Endless Midnight
Armour
Drought
Beggar
Papa
Fear
A Negro Girl in Winter
Darlmess
Dawn
Name
You
Cockscomb
Simple
Tryst
Several Fragments
Moment
Book
Poetry Arrayed
Ars Poetica
Understanding
Maw
Water
Aunt Rose
Leaves Home
Youth
Vengeance
Fool
Drunkard
The Vigil
Alms
Hospital
Toad
Conscience
Chocolate
Hatem-tai
Politics
Continuum
Emperor Babur’s Prayer
At the Hospital
Dharma
Our Last Words
Nachiketa
Body
Monsieur Flesh
Leap
The Ringer of the Gong
The Drums Begin to Beat
The Torrents of Rain
Clothes
The Royal State
The Sleep
Its Lost Voice
By the Sea
Index of First Lines