These poems selected from hundred others written over the last several years. Delwar Hossain Khan composes poems for himself only, when he seeks solitude, needs to be away from all distractions, of feels he must return to his self, He writes poems and draws sketches mostly while traveling around the world edged between the seats of an airplane, waiting at airports for connection or missed flights. He writes in Bengali, his own language, as well. A collection of his Bengali poems was published several years ago. In that collection, and in this volume, the reader discovers not only a poet’s world of whispering trees. gleaming flowers, and of course, lost summers he meets the mind of a visionary, a philosopher whose concern reaches beyond this earth of ours full of unkind people and places
