The poems of Nirmalya are noteworthy for their grave, serious tone, for their architectonic beauty and harmony, for their love for the meditative solitariness of nature bordering on a pagan religiosity. The poem "Nature", a gem, a rare spark of Oriental genius; Nirmalya has absorbed almost the entire history of Bengali devotional literature into this masterpiece of linguistic art.

• Cover
• Title
• Praise for Vision of the Solitary Man
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• About the Poet
• About the Translators
• Epigraph
• An Introduction to the History of Bengali Poetry
• 1. The Vision
• 2. Babu, Let’s Dance
• 3. The Heart, Eternal and Dear
• 4. Let’s Go, My Classmate
• 5. The Art of Sculpture
• 6. My Language
• 7. The Crown
• 8. In the Coldness of the Fingers
• 9. Paila Baisakh
• 10. Sanatan
• 11. The Optical Store of Ataur Rehman
• 12. Pranam
• 13. Jealousy
• 14. The Fake Phallus and the Nails of Christ
• 15. The Chalta
• 16. Ambrosia
• 17. Putradeep
• 18. The Water Sword
• 19. The Awakening
• 20. Home
• 21. Maniratna
• 22. Flesh
• 23. The Tiger
• 24. The Second Wedding Night
• 25. Blood Rain, and Blood
• 26. The Elephant Chasing Day
• 27. The Introduction
• 28. Going Alone
• 29. Jyotsnamalini
• 30. A Flash Fiction
• 31. Missing Person
• 32. Maa
• 33. Bait
• 34. Anyone, Online?
• 35. Greed for the Sun
• 36. The Elixir Breeze
• 37. Banamangal
• 38. O Fearless, Look On
• 39. The Surrender
• 40. Janmapadmakalam
• 41. Chaplin
• 42. Kajal
• 43. His Call
• 44. This Sky: A Portrait of Ragas
• 45. I Alone Have Sprouted, O World
• Notes and References
• Back Cover