Dear Reader
Kaurab Online’s latest issue No. 25 is out. Please visit
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This years marks the 10th anniversary of Kaurab Online, the first Bengali poetry webzine.
In an age of dementia, nostalgia is perhaps a healthy ailment of the ageing. With zero
regrets about a phase passed we bring you some of Kaurab Patrika’s early literature –
a snapshot from the 1970s.
This issue covers the founding writers of the Kaurab group. Fortunately for us, they are
all still alive if not necessarily kicking. This contents of this issue are –
- Cover Art by Jamini Roy (from Kaurab 50 festival issue)
- An ancient editorial by Subhas Bhattacharya
- Ah! Those Tricycles – A much acclaimed famously weird poetic-prose piece by Shankar Lahiri
- “MAHISHH” poems by Swadesh Sen, Kamal Chakrabarty, Barin Ghosal, Arun Ain, Subhash Bhattacharya
Incidentally, “Mahishh” was supposed to be the name of a journal which is now called Kaurab.
- Poems scanned from fading issues by Debajyoti Dutta and Shankar Chakrabarty
- Shankar Lahiri interviewed by Sudeshna Majumdar
Also check out our English Translation Site, which should be seen as an international poetry magazine with a focus on Bengali poetry.
This second update covers, among Bengali poets, Buddhadeb Bose, Malay Roy Choudhury and Barin Ghosal.
The Buddhadev Bose page is authored by Pat Clifford.
Constant advice and encouragement from Jyotirmoy Dutta and Damayanti Basu Singh has helped enrich this entry.
Malay Roy Choudhury's page includes his much mythified poem Stark Electric Jesus, which in the past 40 years has been the most anthologized contemporary Bengali poem in English and is included in Poems for the Millenium, Vol. 1 ed. by Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris (1995), My recent interactions with Jerome Rothenberg on Malay Roy Choudhury has been personally inspiring. Thanks to Murat Nemat Nejat. Stark Electric was first published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti in City Lights, later by Howard McCord (several editions). Stark Electric Jesus is a transcomposition made from the original Bengali poem titled "prachanda boidyutik chhutaar".
Malay's page also links a rare vignette on the Hungryalist Movement only to be found in Kaurab. This can be
directly viewed here -
http://www.kaurab.com/english/bengali_poetry/Hungry-Generation/
All poems of Malay Roy Choudhury are translated by the poet.
Likewise, Barin Ghosal translated his poems.
The interview section includes the following -
a. Joseph Parisi, ex-editor of POETRY, interviewed by Ankur Saha
b. Turkish poet Lale Muldur interviewed by Aryanil Mukherjee.
We also re-launched the Book Opener section which is an international poetry book review series, edited by Dana Ward and Aryanil Mukherjee.
This update includes reviews by
David Baptiste Chirot (Poems from Guantánamo)
William Allegrezza (The Grimoire of Grimalkin).
Happy
Editor, KAURAB Online
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