i hear guyana cry!

About the Book

Whereas Balwant Bhagwandin's wild flowers was a gathering of thoughts and emotions, i hear guyana cry!, his second book of poetry, focuses on the destruction that is being visited upon his native land and its people.

These poems speak of the agony from the mayhem and madness of yet another 'Turd' World country on the brink of a 'failed state' the like of Somalia and Liberia with warlords and child-soldiers, drug lords and their phantom enforcers and outright criminals instituting a reign of terror on the populace.

'This is a tragedy of calamitous proportion!'

i hear guyana cry! gathers tears for the rapes, robberies and lives lost; anguish at the senseless murders, rampant brutality and bestiality unleashed upon the innocent and vulnerable; undiminishing anger and bitterness at the nation and its politicians for allowing this havoc to happen, for refusing to cast off their internecine animosities and get on with life for the sake of the country and especially the children; despair and cynicism for a future that offers as options little more than death in one form or another or flight

i hear guyana cry! is for all who have been traumatized and agonized for friends, relatives and neighbors in our homeland, for the homeland-for it is mourning and requiem!

About the Author

Balwant Bhagwandin migrated from his native land of Guyana to the USA in 1990. He now lives, works (in the medical field) and writes in New York City, in the heart of the Caribbean/South American and Southeast Asian diasporas. With publication of this, his second book of poetry, he reiterates that his is a voice that will not be quiet and reinforces his place not only alongside the leading writers of his country but amongst writers in the forefront of the ?second diaspora.?