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 at
the time was unprecedented. Loneliness, anxiety, and dislocation
trouble this verse, but they are balanced by a compelling belief in
the redemptive power of beauty. This book presents more than one
hundred of Chattopadhyay's poems, introducing an international
audience to one of the most prominent and important Bengali poets
of the twentieth century.
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