Imagination and crude reality

Nurunnabi Chowdhury presents forty-six poems in his anthology, Torhitahata Juboker Mrittu.
The poems in the book are based on common issues regarding life. The styles employed in the poetry in this collection mirror his profound knowledge and certainly arouses admiration for his poetic artistry. His writing style comes across in a clear manner so that an average person seeking poetic knowledge can readily comprehend it with no problem. He writes the book with clarity and brevity.
The author has dedicated the book to Dr Dilruba Hani and at the same time has expressed his gratitude to poets Shihab Sarker and Arifa Sultana Lipi.
From the very onset, the readers of this book get to know of the chilling mesmerization that balances the poet's intricate balancing of imagination and crude reality with which he weaves the thoughts in the poems. The poems are interesting and evoke a sense of beauty. They have the beauty of harmonic systems coming to balance our mind with emotional words. The aroma of his poems is based on this connection of emotion and rationality, the subjects on which real art is made. Readers may renew old emotions of the past by reading the poems.
Among the poems, 'Torhitahata Juboker Mrittu,' 'Pitamaher Kabore,' 'Adhipattobad Nipat Jak,' 'Katha Chhilo Jibon Habey Sundaram,' and 'Pitar Sajjaparshey' clearly paint the poet's deeper feelings. His poetry also explores the wilderness of human minds.
Nurunnabi is an accomplished poet who demonstrates his leadership in this arena through his book. His poems are a treasure and definitely saturate the readers' hearts with emotion. Undoubtedly, Torhitahata Juboker Mrittu is an invaluable addition to the field of poetry and is an outstanding contribution by the poet towards a nourishment of thoughts for readers of all ages.
In the final sense, this work is a thoughtful poetic text to be gone through. Any individual who reads and enjoys his writings will truly know about the essence and the art of poetry.
Having done his Masters with Honours in English, Nurunnabi Chowdhury started his career as a journalist. He then moved on to being a college teacher. He went to the United States of America in the 1980s. At present, he is a working journalist at The Palm Beach Post published from the US. He is also involved in real estate business.

ZAM Khairuzzaman is a working journalist.E-mail: [email protected]