Very Close to Pleasure, There’s a Sick Cat by Shakti Chattopadhyay and translated by Arunava Sinha

This is poetry from Bangladesh.

Very Close to Pleasure, There’s a Sick Cat by Shakti Chattopadhyay translated by Arunava Sinha is published by Seagull Books. This is a Book originally written in Bengali. This was published in 2017.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780857424938E12.

Very Close to Pleasure, There’s a Sick Cat, by Shakti Chattopadhyay, is a Bengali poetry collection from Bangladesh, translated by Arunava Sinha, published by Seagull Books in 2017. It is a Bengali collection whose title is nearly perfect in its refusal of clean feeling: pleasure beside illness, tenderness beside animal unease. The useful first posture is patience, not mastery. A poem can move before it explains itself, and this book seems best met through image, rhythm, and the emotional pressure of its address. For a translated poetry shelf, that kind of encounter is the whole point: another language making a new shape inside English.

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