Burning Roses in My Garden by Taslima Nasrin

"Nasrin's voice in these poems is never loud or strident. Rather, it is soft and even, sometimes ironic but more often wistful, as if she were recollecting her turbulent emotions in reflective tranquillity. In fact, hers is the kind of poetry that used to be everybody's idea of poetry before the new Eliotic mode became all the rage about a century ago, with its elliptical obscurity, its allusive erudition, and its exaggerated stress on the impersonality of art. Nasrin writes straight from the heart, without artifice but with artistic control and an apt sense of form. Few radical rebels offer such a blend of staunch ideology with vulnerable sensitivity." --The Hindu

A raw and impassioned account of the making of a young feminist." --Kirkus Reviews on Meyebela: My Bengali Girhood

Living in exile, Taslima Nasrin is one of the world's most well-regarded writers, a secular humanist who has been subjected to forced banishment and multiple fatwas. Her writings have been deemed controversial time and again because of their unflinching preoccupation with gender, community and identity. Her widely celebrated books include Lajja, Split: A Life, My Girlhood, Exile and French Lover and others.

Jesse Waters is director, Bowers Writers House, Elizabethtown College, Pennsylvania. His poetry as well as fiction and non-fiction work have been nominated for multiple Pushcart Prizes and have appeared nationally and internationally in such journals as 88, The Adirondack Review, Coal Hill Review, The Cortland Review, Cimarron Review, Iowa Review, River Styx, Slide, Story Quarterly, Southeast Review, Sycamore Review. His books include of Human Resources as well as So Let Me Get This Straight.

• Print length ‏ : ‎ 196 pages
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.5 x 2.1 x 21.6 cm
• Net Quantity ‏ : ‎ 500.00 Grams