First Will and Testament
Description:
Pages: 132
Year of Publication: 2012
Price: Rs 200
ISBN:
978-93-5045-033-8 (9789350450338)
About the Author:
Debasish Lahiri teaches English Literature at Lal Baba College. He lives and works in Kolkata.
Teaser:
The Body’s Second Coming
I
Many centuries slept
When you slept,
With eyes turned inwards,
Enjoying vignettes of your body’s history.
Meanwhile the world
Hid its ashes
Till I found them one day:
Skeletons of flowers;
The mystery of moths
That killed themselves
In one closed volume;
Friendless vows in flawed letters,
I found them all.
II
Many centuries desired you
And buried their dead,
Till I dies in your sleep
To plunder the burial-chamber of desire.
My gain is your desire’s body
As it shall now come:
My solitude’s second coming.
A review of the book appeared in the May 2013 issue of Transnational Literature (a journal brought out by Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia). You can read it here.
Contents:
73 poems spread over 7 sections