Kamal Chowdhury : Selected Poems

With his unique style and prolific output addressing a diverse range of topics, Kamal Chowdhury enjoys a special place in the world of contemporary Bengali poetry. Over the past four decades, the poet has published sixteen volumes wherein he has skillfully explored poetry in all its forms. This collection presents an exclusive selection of his work, 125 poems taken from ten of his collections and translated into English by fellows of the Dhaka Translation Center at the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh. The poems within are a discovery of the self and an exploration of joy and agony, fears and compulsions, life and death, man and nature. They will take readers on a journey encompassing the present as well as the past, across Bangladesh-its ordinary homes, paddyfields and riverbanks, cities and towns-and beyond, to the deserts of Egypt, the Kenyan savannah or some corner of Europe or North America.