Phoenix on a Female Body and Other Poems

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Description:

Author: Tuhin Sanyal
Pages: 98
Year of Publication: 2009
Price: HB Rs 150, FB Rs 100
ISBN:
HB 978-81-8157-907-2 (9788181579072)
FB 978-81-8157-908-9 (9788181579089)

About the Author:
Tuhin Sanyal’s love-affair with poetry dates back to his school days. Himself a student of English literature, he takes pleasure in reading W. B. Yeats, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes and T. S. Eliot. Sheer passion led him to take up Yeats as a dissertation topic for his M. Phil course under the University of Calcutta. He has taught English at St. Xavier’s School, Bokaro, for quite some time, worked as a freelancer for The Times of India, and is presently a post-graduate English teacher appointed by the West Bengal School Service Commission. His first collection of poems, White, Blue and Other Poems was published by Writers Workshop, India, in 2004.

Teaser:

Awake, in My Senses

There will be a day
For you to stay
Awake, in my senses,
While I sketch sleep.

There will be a night
For you to fight
Out the wrong tenses
That grammarians keep.

There will be a hutment
With morsels and parchment
Of ancient minces
When logics peep.

Then there may be tempests
And attending he-guests
With myopic lenses,
To favours reap!
Can I then share
Your winding stair,
With you in my senses…
While I sketch sleep?

Contents:
51 poems

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