Wild Flowers

About the Book

This first collection of poetry from Balwant Bhagwandin unleashes the anguish and the anger, the hunger of one born in a Third World country and the happiness that seems to live only in memories, right alongside the nightmares ... the nostalgia for a life and land from which he has chosen exile...

The poet shuns stylistic and structural orthodoxies to present a fluidity of form, material and emotions that changes from poem to poem, not only to give voice to his bitterness and cynicism but to celebrate humanity and the poetic legacy, not without humor and always 'returning as thanks for the light, resplendence...'

Truly, these are wild flowers in the desolations of life and this collection, a brilliant star in the uncertain but hope-filled world of the immigrant in an American inner city, a world of harsh struggles, crippling loneliness, transient joys and undiminishing aspirations for a lighter, brighter tomorrow ... making this book a 'must read', especially for those from the former colonial world, for everyone in the 'second diaspora'from the Caribbean and wider afield ...

About the Author

Balwant Bhagwandin lives, works and writes in the heart of the Caribbean/South American immigrant community in New York City. From High School teacher in his native Guyana, he now works in the medical field in this, his adopted country and City. With publication of this first collection, he takes his place not only alongside the leading writers of his country but amongst writers in the forefront of the 'second diaspora'.