Very Close to Pleasure, There's a Sick Cat: And Other Poems

by Shakti Chattopadhyay and Arunava Sinha

In the early 1960s, 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0857424939
• ISBN13: 9780857424938
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Seagull Books
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.3"