Burning Roses in My Garden

‘Have I not, having kept a man for years, learnt that it’s/ like raising a snake?

So many animals on this earth, why keep a man of all things?’ writes one of the world’s 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 one’s 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.