Book record
Ha Ha Ho Ho
Annada Shankar Ray
Translated from Bengali by Sukanta Chaudhuri
Ha Ha Ho Ho, by Annada Shankar Ray, is a Bengali poetry collection from India, translated by Sukanta Chaudhuri, published by Seagull Books in 2016. It is a Bengali book where laughter should not be mistaken for lightness, since comic sound can carry satire, tenderness, and social bite. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can begin working. Start with the title, the pressure of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. The value here is not just metadata or representation, but the chance to let one poet's particular difficulty create its own weather.
- Published
- 2016
- Publisher
- Seagull Books
- Language
- Bengali
- Country
- India
- ISBN
- 9780857423603