Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Poetic Obituaries: [Razia Khan Amin] was a brilliant English poet

and a wonderful Bangla novelist, one of our very best. Yes, she was bilingual in the Serajul Islam Choudhury and Syed Manzoorul Islam mould. Or she was a combination of Kaiser Haq and Syed Manzoorul Islam, two of her favourite students. It is sad that both her volumes of English poetry, Argus Under Anaesthesia (1976) and Cruel April (1977) are out of print. She has a wonderful diction and her images are brilliant. She deals with time, love and her own spiritual conflict. She records for posterity the brutal genocide of 1971 and the horrifying and tragic murder of our intellectuals.

from The Daily Star: Razia Khan Amin: teacher, poet, novelist

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