Burning Roses in My Garden

Have I not, having kept a man for years, learnt that its/ like raising a snake? So many animals on this earth, why keep a man of all things? writes one of the worlds most celebrated writers, Taslima Nasrin, in her first-ever comprehensive collection of poetry translated from the original Bangla into English. The poems get to the heart of being the other in exile, justifying ones place in a terrifying world. They praise the comfort and critique the cruelty of a loved one. In these are loneliness, sorrow, and at times, exaltation.