Author: Prabal Kumar Basu
Publisher: Rupa
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 275
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8171676391
Description
This anthology has endeavored to document the social, political and socio-economic evolution in the fifty post-Independence years in its impact on Bengali Poetry. This is by no means a personal anthology like most other anthologies.
This anthology has endeavored to document the social, political and socio-economic evolution in the fifty post-Independence years in its impact on Bengali Poetry. This is by no means a personal anthology like most other anthologies. The fifty representative poets chosen have won critical acclaim as well as love and admiration of the readers.
Though the mainstream Bengali poetry has always pivoted in and around Kolkata, this anthology has included poets from North Bengal, Assam and Tripura also to give an exhaustive perspective of Bengali poetry and also to highlight the trends of poetry in these places.
The makers of this anthology are quite aware that the original poetry is considerably lost in the target language. But left with no other option to take it to the wider section of non-Bengali readers within and outside the country, attempts have been made here not to deviate much from the original. The translators have adhered to the original and have practically taken no liberties. Every poets has an articulation of his/her own and that is what needs to be retained. All measures have been taken to ensure this.
Art and poetry are complementary. Poets and painters explore the same imagery. In the Bengali speaking society, particularly in the period under focus here, poets and painters have been in close touch, sharing common sensibilities and responses. That is yet another dimension of Bengali poetry that has been underscored in this anthology with a selection of representative works projecting the spirit of the times, produced by some of the finest contemporary painters.
Contents
Foreword
Prologue
ARUN MITRA (1909-2000)
At the Sight of the Smoke
These Few Lines
The One Who’s Come
SUBHASH MUKHOPADHYAY (1919)
The Man Never Found Out
I am Miserable
The Knight Check
My Work
To Hangers On
BIRENDRA CHATTOPADHYAY (1920-1985)
In the Meeting of Poets
The Amazing smell of Rice
In the Night sky
Behula’s Raft
Headless Trunks Scream In Glee
ARUN SARKAR (1922-1980)
Naren Master
Destitute
Father
A Summer Poem
NIRENDRANATH CHAKRABARTY (1924)
All Kinds of Loving
The Place
It’s So at Times
Seeing It Through to the End
Jesus of Calcutta
MANINDRA GUPTA (1926)
Ashtray
The Pilot
The Candle
SARAT KUMAR MUKHOPADHYAY (1931)
To my Friend’s Wives
Bending Down And Down
Sounds
Birajmohan
ALOKE SARMAR (1931)
Secret Abode
Which Way is Heaven
Everyday He Watches
See
SHANKHA GH0SH (1932)
Babu Says
Beautiful
A Big Fool, Unsocial Too
Idle Water
The Decade
ALOKERANJAN DASGUPTA (1933)
The Blood Stained Lattice Window
The Late Afternoon Sky
The Evening Press Conference
Roads Lost in Temples And Mosques
SHAKTI CHATTOPADHYAY (1933-1995)
Jarasandha
Pleading Portrait
Unruly I roam
O Forever Venerable Fire
That Isn’t Time for Much Joy —
That Isn’t Time for Much Happiness
SUNIL GANGOPADHYAY (1934)
Nineteen Seventy One
A City of Memories
For the Guevera
Neera’s Illness
The Nurse-Maid
BENOY MAJUMDAR (1934)
Me and My Oleander Flower
Can Give You Love
Last Evening
Yet Some More Time
TUSHAR ROY (1934-1977)
Check and See
Then
Who is the Hunter
A Poem Dedicated to the Beloved
SAMARENDRA SENGUPTA (1935)
The Stairs of Coffee House
Quarter to Twelve
He Came and Stood
AMITAVA DASGUPTA (1935)
The Wooden Chair
I Am India
Poetry And Slogan
Dhaka May 21: 1990
UTPAL KUMAR BASU (1936)
Demon
Breadcrumbs off my Shirt
The Ship Sailing Away
My Spectral Spirit
PRANABENDU DASGUPTA (1936)
About Houses
It is Time For Me to Go
The Quarrel
Who-Whom
TARAPADA ROY (1936)
On Some Days I Feel Sad
What Was It That I Wanted
The Indian Map
The Cooling Machine
SHAKTIPADA BRAHMACHARI (1937)
The Fowler
Pour Femme
Conference of Poets
VIJAY MUKHOPADHYAY (1937)
All this Play-Acting
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Equation
Out of Raghuvamsha
MANIBHUSAN BHATTACHARYA (1938)
Montu’s Day
The Story of the Martyr’s Day
Night At Gandhinagar
PABITRA MUKHOPADHYAY (1940)
He who is Alone
To A Dead Friend
Politics
Of Defeated Humanity
GEETA CHATTOPADHYAY (1941)
My Being : Embryo
Birth
Ocean to Himalayas
Burning of the Sati
PIYUSH RAUT (1941)
You Too, God
The Prelude To revolution
About Him
BHASKAR CHAKRABARTY (1945)
When will winter come, Suparna
For the Lost Youth
Another Love Poem
Death
DEBARATI MITRA (1946)
Motion
Applied Mathematics
No, No and No
AMITAV GUPTA (1947)
Omega Point
Bengali
Arjun : To Karna
Yudhistir : To Kunti
KRISHNA BASU (1947)
Hymn To the Goddess
A Woman’s Corpse
Your Girlchild
Just An Ordinary Mail
RANJIT DAS (1949)
April
International
To My Father
Smile For the Camera
TUSHAR CHAUDHARY (1949)
Hunting Ground
Seducing, Beautiful Nina
O Life Eternal
The Night Wears On
PARTHAPRATIM KANJILAL (1949)
To Friends
More Poems of the Night
Table
SHYAMALKANTI DAS (1951)
The Four Friends
Allegory
O My Motherland
With Wood
JOY GOSWAMI (1954)
Funeral Verses
Maltibala School For Girls’
Victorious
The Future Missing Girl
Hawk of Iron, For You
DHIMAN CHAKRABARTY (1954)
Rope
Doleful
Arms
PUNNYASLOKE DASGUPTA (1955)
Fornication
Cunning
Love
MRIDUL DASGUPTA (1955)
The Blindness After Sunset
Woman Thy Name Is Desire
Mishap
Solution In Simplicity
SUBODH SARKAR (1957)
Gandhi
Sari
How To Be a Good Communist
The Kind of Wife We Want
SANJUKTA BANDOPADHYAY (1958)
Pill
The She-Cat
In This Birth As A Woman
The Geometry We Could Not Learn
ANEEK RUDRA (1959)
Apocalypse
Incarnation of Dwarf
The Portrait of Living
PINAKI THAKUR (1959)
Generation
Girl-Friend Dear
Passenger
JAHAR SEN MAJUMDAR (1960)
Signal
Ladder
Back of One’s Head
MALLIKA SENGUPTA (1960)
Open Letter To Freud
Tell Us Marx
A Mark of Blood
A Fish In the Feudal Age
PRABAL KUMAR BASU (1960)
By My Personal Memorial
Living Scape
Rhino
The Wall
JOYDEV BASU (1962)
India : A Search
Twenty-Seventh Birthday
Arowal Or Kansara Or . . . .
For comrade Musa Mollah
RAHUL PURAKAYASTHA (1963)
Poem of 12 Noon
Open Jaws
Mask
RUPAK CHAKRABARTY (1965)
Twenty-Fifth Baisakh
Fish
The Whiter Letter
CHIRANJIB BASU (1968)
The Uncertain Path
A Dream Originated Dialogue
Pilgrimage
BIBHAS ROYCHAUDHURY (1969)
The Archer
Rice
My Dear Father
MANDRAKANTA SEN (1972)
A Stranger Affair
Alone in Moon City
When Just You
The Poets
The Artist
Glossary