Selected Poems

By Joy Goswami| Sampurna Chattarji

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About the book

This collection brings together, for the first time, poetry from three strikingly different phases of Joy Goswami’s formidable literary career — Surjo-Pora Chhai (Ashes, Burnt by the Sun, 1999), Moutat Moheshwar (Shiva, My High, 2005) and Du Dondo Phowara Matro (Merely a Spurt of Time, 2011). Selected and translated by Sampurna Chatterji, this book, which includes an in-depth interview with the poet, introduces the English reader to the world of a poet whose language is powerful, inventive and often enigmatic. While some poems invoke a landscape that is ‘mysterious, anguished and visionary’, in others Joy Goswami achieves mischief and melancholy with the deftest of strokes.

Pages: 256

Available in: Paperback

Language: English

Joy Goswami

Joy Goswami is one of Bengal’s foremost poets, with more than thirty published books. His many awards include the Ananda Puroshkar and the Sahitya Akademi Award. Sampurna Chattarji is a poet, novelist and translator. Of her ten books, the most recent are her short stories about Bombay/Mumbai, Dirty Love (Penguin, 2013) and her second novel, Land of the Well (HarperCollins, 2012).

Sampurna Chattarji

Sampurna Chattarji’s sixteen books include a short-story collection about Bombay/Mumbai, Dirty Love; a translation of Joy Goswami’s Selected Poems; and seven poetry titles, the most recent being Elsewhere Where Else / Lle Arall Ble Arall, co-authored with Eurig Salisbury; and Over and Under Ground in Mumbai & Paris, written in collaboration with Karthika Nair. She is currently Poetry Editor of The Indian Quarterly.