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"ROLLER-SKATING NOTES Nina Zivancevic [Nina Zivancevic is the winner of the 2021 CENTRE NATIONAL DU LIVRE [CNL] grant for creative writing (poetry domain ). ] Teleported across the Iron Curtain, Zivancevic sounds the hidden alienation of a language on the brink, of mantras of the unsayable compulsively disgorged in lieu of a politic of linguistic refuge. Poetry is not, as Adorno claimed, impossible after Auschwitz, any more than it is impossible after the Soviet Union or the present drowning of the planet in commodified junk, but the contrary: such catastrophes make language possible in its critical poetic aspect. - Louis Armand In this book Nina Zivancevic is a stand-up poet in the true tradition of the great stand-up comedians, like Lenny Bruce, for instance, like Groucho Marx. But she's more than that! When Nina Zivancevic's says in her poem, Active Artists Reforming Action, "No, I'm not an Anarchist/My grandfather did it for me...," then you're really in the presence of someone whose every poem is an assault on the senses, a bullet to your ears." - Gerard Malanga This transnational writer reflects on her current life in Paris, France and the situation with migrants, her past in Belgrade, Yugoslavia and its civil war, as well as New York, US and its problems with gentrification. But she also speaks regarding other current or past events, like the civil war in Syria, and Afghanistan. We delight in her reflections on ancient Greece; philosophers like Nietzsche, Freud, Hannah Arendt and éZiézek; painters and composers like Chagall, Chopin, and Liszt; and even drug lord, El Chapo Guzman." - Biljana D. Obradovic, Xavier University of Louisiana As usual, Nina Zivancevic's poems do a bunch of things I've been trying to figure out for years. She is basically the master mathematician of ideas translated into poetry. - Malik Ameer Crumpler, author of Beneath the Underground, Collected Raps"--

This seventh and final edition of Bhupen Hazarikar Git Aru Jibon Roth came about after the author, late Dr. Dilip Kumar Dutta (January 2, 1939 - September 26, 2019), revised and/or added, some 250 new pages to the previous out-of-print 6th edition. He wrote them over a few years following my father Dr. Bhupen Hazarika's death on November 5th, 2011 in Mumbai. His body was brought home to Guwahati for what was to become his historic public cremation in Jalukbari on November 9th, 2011, when several hundred thousand people from all walks of life and ages attended all day while people all over Assam, inside her Northeastern sister states and as in West Bengal and Bangladesh, mourned his loss publicly. While alive he was already an iconic legend and everywhere young and old joined singing contests to sing his songs. That day, also present, was a forest of journalists and cameramen who recorded the extraordinary event whose archives will reveal for posterity one of the reasons why people keep installing Bhupen Hazarika's statues all over Assam. The Government of Assam spared nothing in affording Bhupenda and his family the highest state funeral, making this spontaneous mass outpouring of grief India's head-lining news for days and weeks to come. As a greatly loved personality and singer whose hundreds of songs were the background music to so many people's personal lives, his loss may have somehow struck them as a loss of their own voice. What transpired after the cremation was an intense period of reflection among thinking Indians and politicians as to the possible socio-political significance of such an extraordinary phenomena in the face of India's and the central government's perception about and relationship with the Northeastern region. While the central government hastened to posthumously award my father the Padma Vibhushan (2012) and then the Bharat Ratna ( 2019 ), India's highest civilian award, many had wondered before and still do now why it did not happen earlier when he was alive. Questions and legal matters surfaced regarding his will, still in the courts to this day, even as nationally, his popularity has kept growing to almost become a household name in India. In response to this phenomena and in order to bring some missing facts about my father to the public, Dr. Dutta started to update Bhupen Hazarikar Git Aru Jibon Roth by addressing some of those issues including my father's important relationships with his family members, business partners and the difficulties he faced before and after the onset of Alzheimer's disease which ultimately silenced him. As yet, still remains enigmatic the question why the grieving among his Northeastern fans ran so deep and long. Dilip Dutta split his time between Kingston, Rhode Island, as math professor and during the summer months he travelled to Jorhat, Assam, to spend his time writing passionately about Assam, its people and its history. He had befriended my father in the 1970s and often visited him at his Tollygunge residence in 'Calcutta'. Every time my father travelled to the USA, he spent time with Dilip Dutta in Rhode Island, where he lived with his wife Ranima. Far from the hectic life of a performing artist in India (earlier) and later as 'culture czar' with the Sahitya Akademi, a prestigious and high profile five year appointment that straddled the demanding worlds of show-business and politics when deep down, every one who knew him would agree, his heart really belonged to the simplest people of India. My father greatly enjoyed the time spent in relaxed anonymity with his friend and biographer at his seaside home.

For the benefit of Assamese readers outside India, Coolgrove Press is publishing (2021) Dr. Arati Baruah's book titled Koilashor Pora Tsangpor Thio Gorat Utter-pub Bharat: Jalabayusalani, Brahmaputrarsankat (with the English title: Northeast India in the Vertical Gorge of Tsangpo: climate change and the crisis of Brahmaputra). It was first published in India with favorable reviews in Assam in 2020. An English version of the above work by the author is being prepared at Coolgrove, provisionally titled, Save the Tsangpo-Brahmaputra, Protect the Vertical Pole and Freeze Global Warming.As the titles suggest, when it comes to international border crossing rivers, complex factors not limited to environmental, topographical and geological, affect the people who live in those river valleys. However, when man-made disasters break upstream, problems cascades downstream where the people often pay the heavier price, though not always, in the long term. Treaties governed by international law need to be in place to enforce accountability for the responsible parties for such tragedies. Transcending national self-interest, the prevention of such disasters in mutual recognition of the loss of traditional lands and lives lost on both sides of the border need to be considered urgently. Such scenarios exist all over the world and require a closer look at the intentions and genuineness of the negotiating parties. Shifting the national aims from mindless and greedy exploitation of nature to mutual, good neighborly co-management of the ecosystems of such river valleys can instead support peace and prosperity on both sides of the river. Topographical geopolitics, historical perceptions and the good faith of the parties become crucial factors in the dynamics of negotiations. But governments come and governments go yet the lives, hopes and dreams of the people of valleys on both sides remain determined by the existence and absence of such guardrails. Referring to Tibet as the 'Vertical Pole', the author reminds us that Tibet, also known as the 'Roof of the World', is actually and spectacularly, the source of all the great rivers of Asia. Let us not forget that both the Ganges and the Brahmaputra as well as other smaller rivers flowing south into India begin in Tibet, fed by glacial melt cascading down the numerous creases of the Himalayas. In the interest of identifying the long view for both sides the border and the world by example, the works offer readers a localized and heartfelt perspective regarding the consequences of the topography and the geology of the long mountainous border region between India and Tibet-China, with an urgent appeal for both countries and the entire world, to pay closer attention to these issues and to take action to avoid catastrophes in the making.