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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 images, and in the effect that the images have one on another. The poems possess immediacy,...