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Bengali Poetry Portfolio

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“Almost, 50 years back, in 1964, Allen Ginsberg brought back some avant-garde writings of contemporary Bengali poets of the Krittibaas and Hungry Generation groups from Calcutta. Allen helped Lawrence Ferlinghetti do a special issue on Bengali poetry in the City Lights magazine. A similar but more extensive portfolio of Bengali poetry was recently released in Jacket2.”