I Like to Wash My Face with Seawater: A Collection of Poems

Introducing Saumitra' s poetry to an English relishing readership is like reliving its flavor a few years ago in Hindi when these very poems caught the print eye of an eminent publisher, Bharatiya Gyanpith. Saumitra's selection was not only published from there but also bestowed the `Navlekhan Award,' and these poems have been expertly translated by Dhiraj Singh, who gives a Midas touch of his pen when moving from one language from another.

Saumitra is, by profession, an engineer and by pass...