Kobitar Shopno by Abid Azad

ebook name- ‘Kobitar Shopno’
Collected by – Abid Azad
Book genre- A lot of Bengali poetry books
File format- PDF
Pages-118
File size- 6.5Mb
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About the Author:-

Abid Azad, who was born Habibur Rahman in the peaceful town of Chiknarchar in Kishoreganj on 16 November 1952, is widely seen as one of the generation-defining poetic voices of contemporary Bangladeshi literature. He grew up during post-Partition East Pakistan, an era of profound political, cultural, and linguistic transformation, all of which influenced his perspective and literary acuity to some extent. He studied at the University of Dhaka, where he was immersed in the throbbing literary currents that succeeded the Language Movement and ultimately the Liberation War. Azad started publishing his poems during the 1970s, first appearing with Ghaser Ghatana in 1976, a work that introduced him as an emerging voice with a new and vivid style. Throughout the decades, he wrote 19 collections of poetry, novels, prose essays, and literary criticism. His work as editor of the literary magazine Shilpataru granted him a singular seat of authority in terms of sculpting and critiquing modern Bengali literature. Azad’s style of poetry tends to combine realism with metaphoric imagery from around us while raising it to the level of metaphor. His literary work earned him multiple awards, such as the Bangabandhu Puraskar and the Michael Madhusudan Academy Award. He died in 2005, leaving behind a corpus of work that continues to find resonance with both scholarly critics and ordinary readers.

When and Where the Book Was Written:-

Kobitar Shopno was born out of a very introspective period in Abid Azad’s life in the early 1990s when he had already grown into a poet and had started venturing into the more personal and introspective landscapes of literary work. Although the date of its composition is not clearly documented, it is generally assumed that the book was written between 1991 and 1993 and was eventually published by a serious Dhaka-based publishing house. The physical and mental backdrop of the book is, however, anything but the Dhaka literary scene; it takes readers back to the countryside and tranquil environment of his home district Kishoreganj. This setting—replete with mango orchards, monsoon-drenched paddy fields, thrumming markets, and joint family life—constitutes the psychological and cultural context of the book. Composed in a time of comparative personal and political tranquility, the book betrays Azad’s nostalgia to recapture the affective topographies of his childhood, not merely as memory but as an aesthetic and philosophical question. It was also in this reflective period that he started reinterpreting boyhood not as a linear story but as a dreamlike process—hence the title Kobitar Shopno or The Dream of Poetry. The tone and style of the book are such that it is believed to have been influenced by an urge to freeze moments in time, transitory emotions, and the quiet metamorphosis of a boy into a poet.

Content of the Book:-

Kobitar Shopno is not a conventional collection of poems; rather, it finds a space somewhere between memoir and poetic prose. It is comprised of beautifully chiseled memories of the author’s youth and adolescence, told with the power and lyricism of poetry. With Azad’s rich and sensual writing, readers are invited to experience a world where time passes with slowness, dictated by the cadence of life in the countryside—the fragrance of damp soil following rain, the tinkle of temple bells in the distance, the secrets of ancient trees on a hot afternoon. The novel reads like a tapestry, embroidered with the yarns of domestic connections, neighborhood folklore, school recollections, religious holidays, and moments of stealthy observation. These observations are deeply personal, but they speak universally because they reflect the silent, frequently unnoted textures of many individuals’ childhoods. The most dramatic aspect of this work is the way Azad takes the ordinary and makes it mythical—employing poetic prose to turn everyday moments into immortal scenes. His narrative on nature, individuals, and emotions has the vividness of experienced life and the vagueness of dreams. Although it’s prose, the language has a rhythm that makes it seem like poetry in motion, rendering the book a meditative exploration of memory, language, and identity.

Summary of the Book:-

The core story of Kobitar Shopno is about the childhood life of the narrator, allegedly fictionalized Abid Azad himself. The novel starts with poignant descriptions of life within an extended family of eleven children, sharing meals, stories, and silent moments. It vividly describes his father’s dominance, mother’s loving nature, the festivals lighting up the village, and the inevitable change in relationships over time. Inextricable in these memories are moments of isolation and creativity—moments when young Abid would meander across fields, gather fallen flowers, watch ants in awe, or look up at the night sky in wordless wonder. These moments lay the groundwork for his poetic awareness, implying that poetry started not in books, but in these quiet observations. The novel also subtly raises issues of class, rural poverty, political consciousness, and the ambiguity of coming of age in a period of national change. The story is non-linear, dreamlike, and each chapter is a vignette that forms part of a larger emotional collage. The last impression is one of soft melancholy—the sadness of lost hours combined with the joy of having lived them to the full.

What the Admin Feels About the Book:-

In my opinion, Kobitar Shopno is a masterclass in literary self-reflection. It resists simplification—neither strictly memoir nor strictly poetry—but it manages to do what great literature always does: it affects the reader profoundly. What is so unique about this book is not so much what is said, but the way that it is said. Azad’s writing is smooth, poetic, and richly emotional; his words don’t just tell us things, they make us feel them. Each chapter is like entering a newly painted room where light, color, and silence are all central to the action. To those who know the life of a Bengali village, the book is a reflection; to others, it is a portal. Especially commendable is the way Abid Azad resists melodrama. Rather, he chooses quiet beauty, muted sorrow, and soft humor. As a reader, I caught myself coming back to the page time and again—not because the prose was tricky, but because the emotions were. It is a book that reminds us of the poet inside all of us, the dreamer inside the child, and the child inside the poet. I would wholeheartedly recommend Kobitar Shopno to anyone who enjoys contemplative literature, particularly readers concerned with the ways memory and language cooperate to give rise to poetry.

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