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Nabaneeta Dev Sen
Archipelago Books: 2021
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The voice is that of the well-established Nabaneeta Dev Sen; the versions are the English translations of her Bengali poems in this hybrid selection which reads like a palimpsest. Like most palimpsests, it raises two sorts of question: hierarchic and hermeneutic.
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