The seventh-most spoken language in the world,
Bengali is home to some of the most distinctive
poetry ever written anywhere. Starting with the
later poems of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath
Tagore, there has been a long and continuous
line of modern poetry in the language, its span
ranging from lyrical love poems to passionate
political verse, from expressions of existential
anguish to psychological explorations. This
volume celebrates over one hundred years of this
poetry from the two Bengals-the eastern Indian
state and the country of Bangladesh- represented
by over fifty different poets and a multitude of
forms and styles.