[New-Poetry] WorldPo: Bangladeshi Poet, Kaiser Haq

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http://www.popmatters.com/pm/columns/article/52591/in-conversation-with-bangladeshi-poet-kaiser-haq/
The Bengal Gaze: In Conversation with Bangladeshi Poet, Kaiser Haq
[2 January 2008]


In recent context, the work of Bangladeshi writers like Kaiser Haq, a poet, translator, essayist, editor and professor of English at Dhaka University, seems ever more significant. Haq’s latest collection of poetry, Published in the Streets of Dhaka: Collected Poems 1966-2006, impresses with its insight and quirkiness, fluidity and eroticism, evoking Bangladesh as he knows, remembers and imagines it. Haq writes with the fondness and deprecation of the insider; if anything can be clearly discerned from the complexity of his verse (including the sometimes lofty obscurity of his allusions), it is his sense of belonging to Bangladesh, even as he appears to stand apart from it in an intriguing way—through language. 

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