Description
In this scintillating debut in English, Preetinicha Barman, who also writes in Rajbongshi, offers a glimpse of her inner world, as well as the world of her people, the Koch-Rajbongshi people from Lower Assam – a paean to the world of the agrarian life, with its fields and bogs and its flora and fauna, a world fast fading. It’s a book of love and remembrance.
Weaving elements of folk, history, and myth seamlessly, Preetinicha Barman tells evocative autobiographical stories in these verses. When most English-language poets get intoxicated with their own word music or reveal a fashionable deracination, Barman is refreshingly rooted yet universal.
— Robin S Ngangom
This book is a tender contemplation of the world as seen through the eyes of a poet who thinks and feels deeply. Please read it as a meditative process, to reflect and to celebrate. — Srividya Sivakumar
Preetinicha has an amazing myth-making urge which works beautifully into the structure and fabric of the poems. Evocative and lyrical, the poems are simply haunting. — Ananya Guha
Preetinicha Barman (b 1982) is an educator, poet, writer and translator. She teaches English at North Eastern Hill University, Shillong. Her poems are included in anthologies such as The Shape of a Poem: The Red River Book of Contemporary Erotic Poetry, This Land, This People, and others, and journals such as Muse India, The Peregrine Muse, Ethos Literary Journal, The Thumb Print, The Beautiful Mind, and others. Her critical essays are published in research journals and book volumes. Aiyor Photok is her collection of Rajbangshi poems, while Orhan Pamuk: A Critical Reading is her critical work on the writings of the Turkish novelist, Orhan Pamuk.