Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Jibananda Das's poems - translated by Clinton Seely

For the past few weeks, I have been devoting my early morning hours reading Jibananada's complete works. Every day, I think that it is a shame that I cannot share these beautiful things with my daughters. I tried buying the book of English translation once produced by Clinton Seely, but that did not pan out. This morning I was delighted to discover that Parabaas, the online magazine, planned to publish his translations in a serial manner. Here is the link:
http://parabaas.com/jd/articles/seely_scent.shtml

My good friend Bob Evans who sends out wonderful websites, recently sent the following link to Baul folk songs on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKO7JFg5a-8&feature=related