‘Memorial Club’ set for January, 2025 release

One man’s wrongful detention leads to a meditation on power, perversion, and paternity. MEMORIAL CLUBby Mozid MahmudISBN: 978-1-958652-16-9eISBN: 978-1-958652-15-2$19.00 / Paperback / 5.5” x 8.5” / 138 pagesGaudy Boy, January 2025N. America: Asterism / Bookshop / AmazonDistributed by Asterism & Ingram “Magnificent and multilayered novel . . . a precious literary experience.”

Whistle of the skeleton

by Mozid Mahmud Blowing through graveyard’s skeleton you whistle of night Waking a bit I further fall asleep amidst familiar corpse In your left hand lantern of the sun in darkness And with emptiness of right hand Continue moving us Born blind angel’s gigantic iron rod comes down frequently On our remolded head The people […]

Jibanananda Das: Nationalism and Internationalism

by Mozid Mahmud Jibanananda Das had tried writing poetry in English, had written a few essays in the language too. But those did not go quite well and even when they did, it meant nothing for Bengali literature and its readers. He did not try being (in)famous the way Madhusudan Dutta did; Madhusudan Dutta had realized […]