Joy Goswami: Selected Poems

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Whale and Star Press

Joy Goswami is probably the most highly regarded Bengali poet today, a worthy successor, in a land of poets, to Rabindranath Tagore and Jibanananda Das. Although his life has never been easy, his vocation as a poet has never been in doubt. The quality of Goswami’s prolific output has been widely acknowledged in West Bengal and India.

Goswami’s poems are fierce—in their expression, in the impact of their juxtaposed image...