{"id":1045,"date":"2025-12-06T06:51:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T06:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/penprints.in\/shop\/?post_type=product&#038;p=1045"},"modified":"2026-02-09T09:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T09:16:07","slug":"amour-and-anger-by-subodh-sarkar-and-bappaditya-roy-biswas","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/penprints.in\/shop\/product\/amour-and-anger-by-subodh-sarkar-and-bappaditya-roy-biswas\/","title":{"rendered":"Amour and Anger by Subodh Sarkar and Bappaditya Roy Biswas"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"a-unordered-list a-nostyle a-vertical a-spacing-none detail-bullet-list\">\n<li><span class=\"a-list-item\"><span class=\"a-text-bold\">Publisher \u200f : \u200e\u00a0<\/span>Penprints; First Edition (1 December 2025)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"a-list-item\"><span class=\"a-text-bold\">Language \u200f : \u200e\u00a0<\/span>English<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"a-list-item\"><span class=\"a-text-bold\">Hardcover \u200f : \u200e\u00a0<\/span>119 pages<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"a-list-item\"><span class=\"a-text-bold\">ISBN-10 \u200f : \u200e\u00a0<\/span>819939207X<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"a-list-item\"><span class=\"a-text-bold\">ISBN-13 \u200f : \u200e\u00a0<\/span>978-8199392076<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"a-list-item\"><span class=\"a-text-bold\">Packer \u200f : \u200e\u00a0<\/span>PENPRINTS, Address &#8211; P 925 Lake Town, Block-A, Kolkata-700089, West Bengal, India. Phone &#8211; 8697875467 Email &#8211; admin@penprints.in website &#8211; www.penprints.in<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"bookDescription\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"bookDescription\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" data-csa-c-asin=\"819939207X\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\" data-csa-c-id=\"eym63u-lfbzsy-aqqd6r-1psjiz\" data-cel-widget=\"bookDescription_feature_div\">\n<div class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\">\n<div class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" data-expanded=\"false\">Subodh Sarkar\u2019s Amour &amp; Anger is a fierce, fragrant atlas of intimate ruin\u2014poems that crackle with the feral pulse of the street, the bruise of desire, and the corrosive humour of a post-anthropocentric poet conversing with himself in the aftermath of love. Translated with an alchemical linguistic instinct by Bappaditya Roy Biswas, these mesmerizing sonnets illuminate the lyric tradition from within: each poem bends classical form into a theatre of rage, shame, carnivalesque profanity, and raw, unguarded intimacy. Reviving the art of the sonnet through his celebrated Kangaroo Sonnet Sequence, Sarkar positions the practice of the form at the confluence of Bengal\u2019s poetic giants\u2014from Jibanananda Das and Michael Madhusudan Dutt to Shakti Chattopadhyay\u2014demonstrating how a classical form, most famously associated with Shakespeare, can be transformed into an indigenous wellspring for modern sensibility where lyricism, transgression, and tenderness converge with startling intensity. The aesthetics of these sonnets are unmistakably Bengali\u2014earthy, playful, musical, imbued with the lilting gossip of fishes and the vernacular rustle of paddy fields yet global in sensibility, temperament, and emotional reach&#8230;<\/div>\n<div data-expanded=\"false\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" data-expanded=\"false\"><strong>Ashwani Kumar<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1046,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[19,106],"product_tag":[268,270,269],"class_list":{"0":"post-1045","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-poetry","7":"product_cat-translation","8":"product_tag-amour-and-anger","9":"product_tag-bappaditya-roy-biswas","10":"product_tag-subodh-sarkar","11":"thunk-woo-product-list","12":"opn-qv-enable","13":"big-store-woo-hover-zoom","14":"open-single-product-tab-horizontal","15":"open-shadow-","16":"open-shadow-hover-","18":"first","19":"instock","20":"shipping-taxable","21":"purchasable","22":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/penprints.in\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/1045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/penprints.in\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/penprints.in\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penprints.in\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/penprints.in\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penprints.in\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=1045"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penprints.in\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=1045"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penprints.in\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=1045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}