Door Of Paper Essays & Memoirs

This collection of prose of Jayanta Mahapatra, which brings together his engaging lyrical essays written over the last thrity years, should open a door on the provide a deeper insight into his work. In these essays and memories Mahapatra ruminates over such things as what he finds in a good poem, how he feels about his own creative process and what governs hims while he writes a poem; or a book like The Hive, or his meeting with the mythic Ginsberg. Even in his essays on social issues life hunger in Korapt or a cyclone in Orissa, he is trying to plumb mystery, an activity so dear to this conscientious poet..
About Author :
Jayanta Mahapatra is a leading Indian poet. He has read and published his poetry all over the world. He has won such coveted awards as the Jacob Glatstein Memorial Award of Chicago's Poetry and the Sahitya Akademi Award. Four out of his sixteen collection of poems are published abroad. Some of the latest prestigious international anthologies which include his poems are The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry (Random House, New York, 1996) and The Poetry Anthology 1912-2002, Ivan R.Dee, Chicago, 2002.
Contents :
Acknowledgements Freedom as Poetry: The Door An Orissa Journal: July to November About "Hunger" and Myself Mystery as Mantra Summerdusts and a Scent of Mangoes The Inaudible Resonance of English Poetry in India Recent Commonwealth Fiction: Writing from Three Different Cultures A Poet First of All The Voice in the Ink The Moving Horizon: Visiting America Acceptance Speech on Receiving the Sahitya Akademi Award for Realtionship, 1981 Face to Face with the Contemporary Poem Our Escapist Art An August Day in 1942 Publishing in India: An Overview Translating from Oriya: An Approach A Symphony in Stone This Sadness is Mine Also A Book from My Shelf Letter from Orissa to The Hudson Review Of the Lowly Potato: Indian English Poetry Today A Note on Ayyappa Paniker;s Poetry Cuttack: Smoke and a Sunset of Rivers Stranger than Brothers: Writing at the Edge of Anonymity Land to Land: A Moon in our Eyes The Door Hedging the Heart: To What is the Poet Responsible? By the Way Silence: Poetry's Last Word On the Mountain with Allen Ginsberg Containing the World that Contains Us The SAARC Writers: Suffering from Our Poetry The Absence of Absolutes Slow Swim in Dim Light: The Quest for Modernity in Poetry Mirror of a Mirror A.K. Ramanujan: A Tribute Time in the Poem