First Will and Testament - by Debasish Lahiri

(excerpt from the review) I have been reading Debasish Lahiri’s’s poetry over the past few years as he has sent me his poems in a steady stream from Kolkata where he lives and writes, and from his various journeys in India and to the west and the east, and I have been struck by their many-layered i...

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Main Author: Bashabi Fraser
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh Library 2015-04-01
Series:The South Asianist
Online Access:http://www.southasianist.ed.ac.uk/article/view/1260
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Summary:(excerpt from the review) I have been reading Debasish Lahiri’s’s poetry over the past few years as he has sent me his poems in a steady stream from Kolkata where he lives and writes, and from his various journeys in India and to the west and the east, and I have been struck by their many-layered intensity. It is a pleasure now to see his first collection in the public arena, reaching out to a wide readership.  Like his many physical journeys, Debasish’s poetry embodies the metaphoric journeys a poet artist makes through his imagination, journeys that are metaphysical and  philosophical, embodying a quest that moves into the inner recesses of the creative process and outwards in a pledge to comprehend and will life’s experiences  to be transformed and translated into verse. There is a certain anguish and agony evident in the process as the poems are carefully gathered and sectioned into seven parts, which reflect a journey that has been arduous but worthwhile.
ISSN:2050-487X