Tumi, Ma : Poetry Book by Jayasri Burman

Artists across time have been writing poetry. Right from Renaissance artists to contemporary ones, the creative synergy of art and poetry has always contributed to the inspirational underpinnings of an artist’s visual vocabulary. You, Mother by Jayasri Burman is the first publication on her poetry that she has been writing since the age of 7. As she forays into the world of poetry written in Bengali, she uses the words of her mother tongue as she would use colours on her canvases, carrying forward the same lyrical quality in her poems. Her use of internal rhymes, alliteration and assonance conveys the emotions at the intersection of her worldview, life and artistic self.
You, Mother is a collection of poems that traces the trajectory of Jayasri Burman’s life, her growth and feelings as an artist, a poet and a human. The book is bilingual, written in Bengali by Jayasri Burman and translated to English by Arunava Sinha, a renowned translator and professor at Ashoka University. The Foreword has been written by Shri Ashok Vajpeyi, renowned poet, essayist and literary-cultural critic.