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Very Close to Pleasure There's a Sick Cat (Unabridged) by Shakti Chattopadhyay

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Very Close to Pleasure There's a Sick Cat (Unabridged)

Author
Shakti Chattopadhyay
Narrator
Arunava Sinha
Publisher
Seagull Audio
Publish Date
24 October 2022
Run Time
1 hour 27 minutes
Format
Audiobook
Genre
Poetry
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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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Author
Shakti Chattopadhyay
Narrator
Arunava Sinha
Duration
1 hour 27 minutes
Release Date
24 October 2022
ISBN
9781803092096
Format
Audiobook
Publisher
Seagull Audio
Genre
Poetry

Synopsis

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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