City Desk :
Spring season brings many bounties: flowers, fruits, new leaves, vegetables and a riot of colours. On such a spring day of the season the first book of poems ‘Leaves of the Sleepless’ written by Farnaz Mahbub, a promising poet of Bangladesh has been published. The book was showcased at UPS Stall in the ‘Boi Mela’ held in February this year. Some poems were published in leading English newspapers earlier.
88 poems in the book, mostly abstract in theme, throw light to a feeling of emptiness and fullness: emptiness because it does not immediately strike a chord; fullness because one can conjure in his minds eyes many surrealism having hopes and aspirations. The poems trots like a horse as if in music and gallop at times speeding to far-off places.
Farnaz has taken 17 years to write the poems contained in the book. I asked her why poems cannot be written quickly. Her reply was ‘I cannot write poems in a jiffy’. She corrected me as I learnt that Gabriel García Márquez took 45 years to write his novel ‘Love in the time of Cholera’.
The poems, one reader can feel, are written when sleeplessness overtakes a person, as Shakespeare wrote in one of his sonnet:
Keeping my drooping eyelids open wide
Looking on darkness which the blind do see
Makes black night beauteous and her old face new
Farnaz started schooling in an English medium school in Dhaka called Sunbeams, then moved to American International School, Dhaka. After high school, she went to Rhode Island, USA for undergraduate degree and completed major in Psychology, and minor in American Studies. She returned to Dhaka in 2010, and worked for a year in travel related fields and wrote articles on travels, archeology, tea gardens and food tasting. She developed interest for Hospitality, and while in Canada in 2010, she studied Hospitality Management. She has acquired culinary skills, along with other related hospitality skills. In the past, she has worked in the F&B sector at private golf club in Canada, and has held the position of Executive Trainer at Le Meridian Hotel, Dhaka where she trained staff regarding service, and F&B. Currently she is focusing more on her writing, something she has always enjoyed. She is skillful in photography.
Spring season brings many bounties: flowers, fruits, new leaves, vegetables and a riot of colours. On such a spring day of the season the first book of poems ‘Leaves of the Sleepless’ written by Farnaz Mahbub, a promising poet of Bangladesh has been published. The book was showcased at UPS Stall in the ‘Boi Mela’ held in February this year. Some poems were published in leading English newspapers earlier.
88 poems in the book, mostly abstract in theme, throw light to a feeling of emptiness and fullness: emptiness because it does not immediately strike a chord; fullness because one can conjure in his minds eyes many surrealism having hopes and aspirations. The poems trots like a horse as if in music and gallop at times speeding to far-off places.
Farnaz has taken 17 years to write the poems contained in the book. I asked her why poems cannot be written quickly. Her reply was ‘I cannot write poems in a jiffy’. She corrected me as I learnt that Gabriel García Márquez took 45 years to write his novel ‘Love in the time of Cholera’.
The poems, one reader can feel, are written when sleeplessness overtakes a person, as Shakespeare wrote in one of his sonnet:
Keeping my drooping eyelids open wide
Looking on darkness which the blind do see
Makes black night beauteous and her old face new
Farnaz started schooling in an English medium school in Dhaka called Sunbeams, then moved to American International School, Dhaka. After high school, she went to Rhode Island, USA for undergraduate degree and completed major in Psychology, and minor in American Studies. She returned to Dhaka in 2010, and worked for a year in travel related fields and wrote articles on travels, archeology, tea gardens and food tasting. She developed interest for Hospitality, and while in Canada in 2010, she studied Hospitality Management. She has acquired culinary skills, along with other related hospitality skills. In the past, she has worked in the F&B sector at private golf club in Canada, and has held the position of Executive Trainer at Le Meridian Hotel, Dhaka where she trained staff regarding service, and F&B. Currently she is focusing more on her writing, something she has always enjoyed. She is skillful in photography.
