Hayat Saif (Bangladesh)

Nació en Dhaka en 1942. Sacó su licenciatura en Inglés en la Universidad de Dhaka en 1965. Fue funcionario público y Hayat Saif es su nombre de pluma. Su apellido de familia es Khan y su nombre Saiful Islam. Es uno de los poetas principales de Bangladesh, identificado con los años 60. Un poeta profundamente moderno, se ha introducido en la literatura mundial así como en su legado cultural propio. Su gusto refinado le da un lenguaje poético muy especial y profundo. LLeva a sus lectores a un mundo místico de amor y beatitud. Es considerado una personalidad de los años sesenta así como un crítico literario de peso. Además de su poesía, se conoce por su prosa lúcida. Es un poeta más cerebral que emocional, con un dominio especial de la palabra; un dominio que la mantiene subyugada a su exactitud verbal. Meticuloso con la dicción, escribe sobre grandes temas como el amor y la historia.

 

was born in 1942 in Dhaka. He did his masters degree in English literature from Dhaka University in 1965. He was a public servant by profession and Hayat Saif is his pen name. His family name is Khan and his given names are Saiful Islam. He is one of the major poets of Bangladesh and he is identified with the prolific sixties.   A profoundly modern poet, he has immersed himself in the contemporary global literature as well as the culture and heritage of his own. His refined taste in art and literature has given him a unique poetic diction and a deep insight into our contemporary existence, where, as he regrets, violence plays a crucial role. Hayat Saif has an unusually musical voice of his own with which he takes his readers to a very special world where man may, at least symbolically, be born again in love and beatitude. He is considered as one of the most powerful personalities of the sixties and a serious literary critic. Not only is he renowned for his poetry, he is also known as a prolific prose-writer, who with an unusually rich vocabulary, can express subtle topics in lucid language.

He writes a distinctive kind of poetry which is more cerebral than emotional. Although emotion has its place in his poetry, it is often muted and held in check by the cultivated sensibility of his protagonists. The most distinguishing features of his poetry is the dominance of the word – and unlike many of his contemporaries, he strives to restore the word to its previous glory. His words are carefully, almost deliberately chosen, they are his metaphors and symbols as well as his building blocks. His words are scaffoldings that support his central thought yet the scaffolding becomes, at the end, an inevitable part of the total construction. The dialectic between words and ideas leaves finally to the enactment of a meaning.  He has a very particularized voice one that is studied and well–considered, one that is opinionated and clear and one that reflects the milieu and times he is writing about. His work reflects a discernible trend of high modernism where time, history and place appear  as recurrent motifs. He is quietly meditative, yet sharply reactive to the events around him. Always meditative but emotional too, Hayat Saif has crafted many thoughtful poems on major things such as love and history, not only ratiocinative, but also fastidious about diction, he is the type of poet who is given to experimenting with a wide variety of verse forms

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