The Unheard I

By Kiriti Sengupta

The nonfiction has been edited by Don Martin from the United States and the foreword done by Prof. Dr. hülya yılmaz, The Pennsylvania State University, College of the Liberal Arts, U.S.A. The book has been dedicated to Prof. Dr. Mary Miles (Ph.D.), Pennsylvania State University, U.S.A.

The paperback edition (ISBN:9788192642222) has been published by Subho Bondopadhyay of Dhansere Prakashan, Calcutta, India.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kiriti Sengupta
• Release date: Jul 13, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301238231

Kiriti Sengupta

Dr. Kiriti Sengupta is a professionally qualified Dental Surgeon from Calcutta, a bilingual poet and translator both in Bengali and English. He has six books to his credit until now: My Glass of Wine (a novelette based on autobiographic poetry), My Dazzling Bards (literary critiquing), The Reciting Pens (his interviews of three published Bengali poets along with his translations of a few of their poems), The Unheard I (literary nonfiction), Byakul Shabdo Kichu (Bengali poetry), and Aay Na (Bengali nonfiction based on free verses). His poetry has appeared in several e-zines, Tajmahal Review, The Hans India, Kritya, and in international anthologies – Heavens Above: Poetry Below (Canada), and Twist of Fate (U.S.A.). Details of his account can be accessed at www.kiritisengupta.com

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The Unheard I

Kiriti Sengupta

Edited by:

Donald Randolph Martin (Don Martin)

Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A

The Unheard I

Copyright 2013 Kiriti Sengupta.

All Rights Reserved.

Cover-artist: Senjuti Dasgupta

Illustrations: Sumita Nandy

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Dedicated to:

Dr. Mary Miles (Ph.D.)

Departments of English & History

Pennsylvania State University, U.S.A.

For the cause of ‘spontaneous overflow of emotion’

Editor’s note

I first met Dr. Kiriti Sengupta only recently, when we both worked on the Indies In Action (IIA) charitable anthology Twist of Fate (ToF). Kiriti was a contributor, and I was an editor. At one point he asked if I would be willing to do an interview with him about the book. He was doing a series of interviews with people who had worked on the book to be used for publicity purposes when the book was released. I was frankly a little surprised by this. Authors get interviewed about their books all the time. Editors? Never. I jumped at the chance! It turned out to be fun to do, and I got to know Kiriti a little better.

After the interview Kiriti asked if I might be interested in editing his upcoming book which was to be called The Unheard I. He explained the book was to be his first work for an English-speaking audience. I had read some of Kiriti's poetry, and recognized him as a talented poet. But I'll be very honest. I wasn't really sure about editing his book. It would be a challenge to do, and I wasn't so sure I could do it justice.

The first potential problem was that I would be working with a translation of the book. In that capacity I'd be working with the translator's words, not the words of the author. And there are some words, and more importantly some ideas, which just don't translate very well.