Facture by Raymond de Borja Sumita Chakraborty a tragedy that has been

a tragedy that has been repeated in the annals of Black people over centuries of European colonialism

he's one of these people who writes about Ireland with the great insight that only a sense of self-exile can bring

the facing English translations are by leading Welsh poets

and this bi-lingual selection of his work will cement his growing reputation in the

Facture by Raymond de Borja Sumita Chakraborty a tragedy that has beenRaymond de Borjas facture is an inventive book, both literary and wondrously attuned to the most minute subtleties. The poems in facture are uncannily cohesive, each a small sculpture, a little engine. De Borjas poems speak through the history of the art world, the history of art theory, and an acute sense of the material world as well. De Borjas work feels in service of a larger project which we could call the making of art, art which emerges through