Contents

Acknowledgments 11 Introduction 13 Blue Skies 25 Clinton B. Seely After Twenty-Five Years 26 Luna Rushdi Sensation 27 Clinton B. Seely In Camp 30 Clinton B. Seely The Birds 33 Marian Maddern Before Death 35 Azfar Hussain 37 Chidananda Das Gupta Grass 38 Windy Night 39 Faizul Latif Chowdhury Had I Been 41 Golam Mustafa Kite, 0 Golden-winged Kite 42 Sibnarayan Ray Garland of Shells 43 Humayun Azad & Robert Calder The Hunt 44 Joe Winter Deer 46 Anupam Banerji The Cat 47 Faizul Latif Chowdhury The Orange 48 Asif Chowdhury The Two 49 Bhaswati Chakravorty At Last 51 Anupam Banerji Resonances of Dreams 52 Asif Chowdhury This Field Now Littered 53 Buddhadeva Bose & Jyotirmoy Datta A Thousand Years at Play 54 Humayun Azad & RoDert Calder Suchetana 55 Joe Winter Walking Alone 57 Faisal Shahriar Beggar 58 Faizul Latif Chowdhury In the Black-out 59 Faizul Latif Chowdhury Cities 61 Masud Mahmood The Corpse 62 Fakrul Alam One Day Eight Years Ago 63 Faizul Latif Chowdhury Wintry Nights 66 Asif Chowdhury The Primeval gods 67 Jyotirmoy Datta Glancing at the Stars Once 68 Subrata Augustine Gomes Subinoy Mustafi 69 Faizul Latif Chowdhury Anupam Trivedi 70 Golam Mustafa Come Back, Suranjana 71 Chidananda Das Gupta The Horses 72 Tapan Jyoti Barua On the Top 73 Marian Maddern Twilight Dance 74 Subrata Augustine Gomes The Foxes 75 Tapan Jyoti Barua Septet 76 Faizul Latif Chowdhury Night 77 Clinton B. Seely idle Moment 78 Joe Winter Nine Swans 80 Chidananda Das Gupta Awakening 81 Golam Mustafa In Fields Fertile and Fallow 83 Clinton B. Seely Juhu 85 Sudeshna Chakravarti A Song to Kill the Darkness 87 Swapan Majumdar Standing Before Time 88 Sudeshna Chakravarti Loken Bose's Journal 90 Fakrul Alam 1946-47 92 Joe Winter After the Death of Men 96 Shirshendu Chakrabarti The Traveller 99 Chidananda Das Gupta I Have Seen 's Face 101 Marian Maddem Once on the bank of the Jalshiri 102 Mushtaque Ahmad Seven Stars in the Sky 103 Md. Didarul Alam When I Lay in the Sleep of Death 104 HayatSaif One Day I Shall Come Back 105 Chidananda Das Gupta Who would leave this land 106 Joe Winter When I for Myself 107 Meenakshi Mukherjee The Smell of Far Worlds 108 Chidananda Das Gupta From the Breast of the Grass 109 Luna Rushdi Evening 110 Marian Maddem If I got an Eternal Life 111 Faizul Latif Chowdhury Townish Forever 112 Golam Mustafa To Her Steady Lover 114 Faizul Latif Chowdhury Within the Background 115 Ananda Lai The Great Twilight 116 Faizul Latif Chowdhury Tonight 117 Faizul Latif Chowdhury The Song of Life 118 Faizul Latif Chowdhury Ghostly 119 Faizul Latif Chowdhury The Green Grass 120 Mobarak A. Moila The Eclipse of All Eclipses 121 Clinton B. Seely Rabindranath 122 Golam Mustafa The Melody of Air Enters 123 Golam Mustafa Feeling 124 Clinton B. Seely A Magpie 125 Faizul Latif Chowdhury The Kingdom of the Earth 126 Asif Chowdhury Death at the Turn of this Century 127 Syed Manzoorul Islam In the Autumn Fog 128 Mobarak A. Molla The Rivers, Stars and Men 129 Nirmalendu Goon Land Time and Offspring 131 Golam Mustafa A Star Comes 132 Sibnarayan Ray Ravindranath 133 Clinton B. Seely She 134 Joe Winter An October Dawn 135 Asif Chowdhury Gone is the Kingfisher 136 Mohammad Nurul Huda A Strange Darkness 137 Marian Maddern Why At All Do the Stars 138 Tapan Jyoti Barua She 139 Faizul Latif Chowdhury Daughter 140 Joe Winter To a Distressed Woman 141 Golam Mustafa The Tuberose 142 Anisur Rahman All Big Trees 143 Salimullah Khan Draft Poem 144 Mohammad Nurul Huda Of 1934 145 Goiam Mustafa A Night of Vigil 147 Rasheda Zahura Where All Have Gone 148 Farzana Afrose Go Away 149 Mohammad Nurul Huda In a Baishakh Night 150 Golam Mustafa Along the Tram Line 151 Faizul Latif Chowdhury All Daylong Trams and Buses 152 FakrulAlam

Poems translated by himself 155 Darkness 157 • Meditations 158 -The Cat 159 • Sailor 160

Translations of Banalata Sen by different hands 163 Jibanananda Das 165 • Matin Kirkman 166, Amitabha Mukerjee 167 • Clinton B. Seely 168 • Sukanta Chaudhuri 169 Ananda Lai 170 • Anupam Banerji 171 • Fakrul Alam 172 Anjana Basu 173 • Joe Winter 174 • Faizul Latif Chowdhury 175 Glossary of Bengali Terms 177-188 Notes on the Translators 189-197 A biographical sketch of Jibanananda Das 201-213 Select Bibliography 214-215