# First Will and Testament

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**Author:** Debasish Lahiri
 **Pages:** 132 **Year of Publication:** 2012 **Price:**
Rs 200 **ISBN:** 978-93-5045-033-8 (9789350450338)

_**About the Author**_
 Debasish Lahiri teaches English Literature at Lal Baba College.
He lives and works in Kolkata.

_**Teaser**_

_The Body’s Second Coming_

I
 Many centuries slept When you slept, With eyes turned inwards, Enjoying vignettes
of your body’s history. Meanwhile the world Hid its ashes Till I found them one 
day: Skeletons of flowers; The mystery of moths That killed themselves In one closed
volume; Friendless vows in flawed letters, I found them all.

II
 Many centuries desired you And buried their dead, Till I dies in your sleep 
To plunder the burial-chamber of desire. My gain is your desire’s body As it shall
now come: My solitude’s second coming.

A review of the book appeared in the May 2013 issue of _Transnational Literature_(
a journal brought out by Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia). You can read
it [here](http://dspace.flinders.edu.au/jspui/bitstream/2328/26766/1/First_Will_and_Testament.pdf).

_**Contents**_
 73 poems spread over 7 sections