The Vision of the Solitary Man

The poems of Nirmalya are noteworthy for their grave, serious tone, for their architectonic beauty and harmony, for their love for the meditative solitariness of nature bordering on a pagan religiosity. The poem "Nature", a gem, a rare spark of Oriental genius; Nirmalya has absorbed almost the entire history of Bengali devotional literature into this masterpiece of linguistic art.

• Cover
• Title
• Praise for Vision of the Solitary Man
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• About the Poet
• About the Translators
• Epigraph
• An Introduction to the History of Bengali Poetry
• 1. The Vision
• 2. Babu, Let’s Dance
• 3. The Heart, Eternal and Dear
• 4. Let’s Go, My Classmate
• 5. The Art of Sculpture
• 6. My Language
• 7. The Crown
• 8. In the Coldness of the Fingers
• 9. Paila Baisakh
• 10. Sanatan
• 11. The Optical Store of Ataur Rehman
• 12. Pranam
• 13. Jealousy
• 14. The Fake Phallus and the Nails of Christ
• 15. The Chalta
• 16. Ambrosia
• 17. Putradeep
• 18. The Water Sword
• 19. The Awakening
• 20. Home
• 21. Maniratna
• 22. Flesh
• 23. The Tiger
• 24. The Second Wedding Night
• 25. Blood Rain, and Blood
• 26. The Elephant Chasing Day
• 27. The Introduction
• 28. Going Alone
• 29. Jyotsnamalini
• 30. A Flash Fiction
• 31. Missing Person
• 32. Maa
• 33. Bait
• 34. Anyone, Online?
• 35. Greed for the Sun
• 36. The Elixir Breeze
• 37. Banamangal
• 38. O Fearless, Look On
• 39. The Surrender
• 40. Janmapadmakalam
• 41. Chaplin
• 42. Kajal
• 43. His Call
• 44. This Sky: A Portrait of Ragas
• 45. I Alone Have Sprouted, O World
• Notes and References
• Back Cover