The Sailor of the Seven Seas
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I know not how many curtains were opened to let the morning light in. In the orange groves the green leaves quiver. The flood tides of the seven seas have brought the foam to thine doorstep And even then thou awaken not? What, not yet? (The Sailor of the Seven Seas)
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This book, The Sailor of the Seven Seas, is a collection of Farrukh Ahmad’s adventure poems that Yasmin Faruque has translated from Bengali to English. It contains poems about the spirit of adventure inherent in man. In these poems Farrukh Ahmad has laid open his love of beauty, truth, and adventure.
About the Author
Yasmin Faruque, a native of Bangladesh, now lives in Grand Forks, North Dakota. She moved to Grand Forks in 2002 with her husband and son. She is a freelance writer who has published articles in the Grand Forks Herald in 2005 and 2006. She has been participating in the annual Writers Conference at the University of North Dakota since 2005. The present collection, The Sailor of the Seven Seas, is her fourth book. Her first book of poems translated from English, Moni Monjusha, was published in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in November 1979. Her second, Tribute to Tagore, was published by Trafford Publishing in July 2012, and her third, Accolades, also by Trafford in April 2013.