Select Poems of Lakshminath Bezbaroa

"Lakshminath was quite a pioneer in many forms of literature in Assamese. Of him it may be said, as Dr Samuel Johnson had said about Oliver Goldsmith, that "there was no branch of literature which he did not touch, and there was nothing he touched which he did not adorn."

This select collection of Lakshminath's Bezbaroa's poetry, many of them rendered into English for the first time, will introduce Bezbaroa to a wider readership. When the nation celebrates Bezbaroa's 150th birth anniversary, the present collection is a tribute by National Book Trust, India to one of the country's greatest icons of literary and cultural renaissance.

Krishna Dulal Barua is a teacher of English language and literature and music. He translates both fiction and non-fiction from Assamese to English. His publications include Selected Poems of Nilmani Phookan and The Sword of Birgosri (a novel) published by the Sahitya Akademi. He is recipient of the Katha Award for Translation, 2005.

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