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‘These days I enjoy getting irritated from time to time’: The unexpected prose poems of Joy Goswami
An excerpt from After ‘Death Comes Water: Selected Prose Poems’, Joy Goswami, translated from the Bengali by Sampurna Chattarji,
Eating leaves and grass
It takes one year eleven months to get one line of poetry
A baby entered the womb, was born, waved its arms and legs about, learnt to walk,
Babble baby talk – and I?
Couldn’t pluck up the courage, even today, to call a dictionary a dictionary
To call Sachin Deb Sachin Deb
Merely – yes, I’ll deliver, I’m on it,
Joy Goswami: The Cosmopolitan From the Mofussil
Sampurna Chattarjiâs translation of Joy Goswamiâs poetry is essential reading for anyone with even a casual interest in Indian poetry. Joy Goswami s poetry is like a broad, brown, silt-laden river, with its source in suburban or mofussil spaces such Ranaghat and its distributaries spreading into a global consciousness. Photo: Samuli Kangaslampi/Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
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Bengali poet Joy Goswami has often recollected in interviews and his writing the moment he decided to pursue poetry. The scene unfolds at a railway station in a mofussil town in West Bengal. (Born in Kolkata in 1954, Goswami grew up and has lived at Ranaghat, a town about 80 km north of the state capital.) While waiting for his friend Subodh Sarkar, Goswami was flipping through the pages of a volume of Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilkeâs poetry in translation when he decided to become a poet. Several retellings have rendered a m