Khondakar Ashraf Hossain is perhaps the finest poetic voice to have come out of Bangladesh since it won independence in 1971. This volume contains poems that cover a period of creativity extending over almost three decades. Ashraf Hossain's poetry is deeply concerned with the celebration of his motherland, its myths and metonymies, its political and social exigencies. But he also traverses the grounds of existentialist philosophy and mysticism quite often, as he ...
