Birds of Water is a translation of Jayanta Mahapatra's Odia poems, beautifully rendered by Gopa Ranjan Mishra, who hails from the same old city and has intimately watched the life and living of Mahapatra.
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For Jayanta Mahapatra (October 22, 1928-August 27, 2023), who wrote both in Odia and English, poetry was his lifeblood, his raison d’être. In his enviable oeuvre — more than 30 volumes, in both English and Odia, written over a period of five-and-a-half decades — not only did he create a voice and idiom of his own, he also made the colours, textures, and soul of Odisha, as the state is now known, breathe through his poetry. The Orissa of Mahapatra’s imagination, as Jeet Thayil writes in The Penguin Book of Indian Poets, is “a crowded place, corroded by monsoon rains and violence, where God’s silence is ‘deep and famous’ and interrupted only by His laughter.”
Birds of Water is a translation of Mahapatra’s Odia poems. Poet-translator-publisher Manu Dash, who had been working with him to bring out a bilingual collection of his poems, had met him just before his passing away to show him the proof. But, regretably, Dash would never get around to presenting a copy to Mahapatra. Nonetheless, here is the translation, beautifully rendered by Gopa Ranjan Mishra, who hails from the same old city and has intimately watched the life and living of Jayanta Mahapatra.
Jayanta Mahapatra
Translated from the Odia by Gopa Ranjan Mishra
Binding:
Hardcover
Pages:
195
Year of Publication:
2023
Publisher:
Dhauli Books
Edition:
First
Condition:
New
Country of Origin:
India
About the Author
Jayanta Mahapatra (22 October 1928 – 27 August 2023) was an Indian poet. He is the first Indian poet to win a Sahitya Akademi award for English poetry.
Gopa Ranjan Mishra (b. 1954) was educated at Ravenshaw Collegiate School, Ravenshaw College, Cuttack and Utkal University, Bhubaneswar where he did his master's in English. After serving in different colleges he retired as Principal of JKBK Govt. College, Cuttack.
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