An Abandoned Horsecart
By Satyajit Gogoi, Translated by Ananda Bormudoi
2023, PWF, HB, Price Rs 175.00, ISBN 978-81-975772-7-7
A Collection of Ecopoems originally written in Assamese
About the Author
Satyajit Gogoi is an Indian poet, who writes in Assamese, a major language of Assam and the North Eastern part of India. He published one collection of poems in Assamese titled Agniprabha Goi Ase (2015). His poems have appeared in Muse India and all leading Assamese literary magazines. Apart from poetry he has interest in documentary film making and music. He already made three documentary films and wrote many songs.
About the Translator
Dr. Ananda Bormudoi is a literary critic and translator based in Guwahati, Assam. He translates from Assamese language to English and vice versa. He has published more than fifteen books on literary criticism in Assamese and English. He has translated more than eight books from Assamese to English and vice versa. Some of his critically acclaimed books in Assamese are Asamiya Samalochana Sahityar Chamu Buranji (A Short History of Assamese Literary Criticism, 2008); Asamiya Kavitar Samalochana (Criticism of Assamese Poetry, 2012); Yuganayak Sankardeva (Hero of the Era Sankardeva, 2014); Adhunik Asamiya Sahityar Itihas (A History of Modern Assamese Literature, 2023).
About the book
“Satyajit Gogoi is a poet with his own distinction for which he is a poet who cannot be missed even in a big group of poets. Humane and nature both can be seen with embracing each other in his poems.”
Nagen Saikia, Sahitya Akademi Award Winner Author
“The capitalistic and colonial nature of the state leads to the destruction of forests, hills, rivers, rivulets, swamps and cropland in the name of development and undermines the age old deep rooted cultural relationship between man and nature. From such a perspective, time now may seem inappropriate for writing poetry. But poetry has always been a strong protest against such adverse circumstances. Gogoi’s poems are a clear proof held up before us. I believe, his poems will add a new dimension to Assamese poetry.”
Nilim Kumar, Poet and Novelist