Shamsur Rahman was described as "The Greatest Bengali poet of his generation" in the Guardian (London) obituary penned by William Radice. It is a view widely shared among Bengali readers in both Bangladesh and India. Rahman’s poetry ranges from the personal to the political, the lyrical to the meditative, the modernist to the populist. In this selection the complete range of his poetic achievement is presented to the Anglophone reader in superbly crafted translations that do justice to the poetic merit of the originals.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kaiser Haq
Kaiser Haq was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and educated at the Universities of Dhaka and Warwick, where he was a Commonwealth Scholar. He has been a Senior Fulbright Scholar and Vilas Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at SOAS, London University. He is a professor of English at Dhaka University, where he has been teaching since 1975. He has published six volumes of poetry, most recently Published in the Streets of Dhaka: Collected Poems 1966-2006. His translations include Selected Poems of Shamsur Rahman and Quartet (Rabindranath Tagore's Chaturanga). He lives in Dhaka with his wife and daughter.
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