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I Even Regret Night: Holi Songs of Demerara
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By Lalbihari Sharma, Rajiv Mohabir (Editor), Rajiv Mohabir (Translator), Gaiutra Bahadur (Introduction)
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Award-winning Indo-Caribbean poet Rajiv Mohabir (born 1981) brings his own poetic swagger and family history to a groundbreaking translation of Lalbihari Sharma's Holi Songs of Demerara, originally published in India in 1916the only known literary work written by an indentured servant in the Anglophone Caribbean. Sharma, originally from Chapra in the current Indian state of Bihar, was bound to the Golden Fleece Plantation in British Guyana. His poems about the hardships of "coolie" life on...