The book of poetry, slim in corpus, carries to Jayanta Mahapatra
Sahitya Akademi award for 1981,
A book which presents the poet
As a dreamer and a visionary,
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Environment and literature which forms a major part, a major crux of ecocriticism, ecocritical studies tells of our approach, our attitude, the way we take to, enter into taking into consideration, the present state of things, when we are ridden, confronted with environmental concerns and seem to be grappling with seriously as no literature can be literature if the existential matters are not addressed, averted and avoided and so the thematic of it bringing to our fore, to our notice the concern, the angst and bewilderment of the age.
How to get rid of environmental anxiety, climate change, global warming, acid rain to patter, atomic summer to take a drastic toll with radio-active radiation, how to fight them back, ho to set the clock of the earth right, how to feel the pulse? We are really disturbed, something gnaws us internally.
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My relationship with the USSR
Unbreakable,
My bonding with Russia,
Ukraine,
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You and I, I and You,
The relationship between the two,
You without I and vice versa.
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Why the animosity,
Hatred
In between Pakistan and India,
Why not love and friendship
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With a quote from Walt Whitman's Song of Myself,
Jayanta Mahapatra
Starts the poem Realtionship
With his mythical stride and visionary glide
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Jayanta Mahapatra's Relationship
Is a Leaves of Grass in miniature
And here the Indian Walt Whitman
Is talking of his relationship
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Jayanta Mahapatra and his relationship
With Orissa,
The Orissan landscapes,
The Orissan society, art, culture and society,
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O foreigner girl, say you, what is,
What is my relationship with you,
If say you not,
I shall not let go,
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Poetry to Shiv K.kumar
Are terracotta figures and sculptures
In love and relationship,
In intimate hugs and emraces,
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Love travelling
Or the travelers in love and relationship
Going global, cosmopolitan
Talking with the mobile phone handset,
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Man-woman relationship,
A story in attachment and detachment,
Attraction and distraction,
Love and hate theme.
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Jayanta Mahaptra's Relationship is a story of relationship
With Odisha, the land of his birth and nativity,
The place where he was born,
Where he roamed,
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A poet of relationship,
Relationship with Orissa and the Oriyas,
Man-woman relationship,
Man and woman taking a siesta
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Bengali love, it is difficult to adjust with,
One keeping a very poor health,
Sentimental and selfish,
Self-centred and parochial,
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I went on looking you and you went on looking me,
You going and going and following and following you
As a fatigued traveller,
A passer-by on the starnge path of life,
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Your relationship wet with tears and love,
Sobs and sighs,
Yearning and hankering after,
This is the tale of our life.
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A poet of relationship, Jayanta talking about the roots of nativity,
Where was he born,
Where did he grow up,
What the things of personal and impersonal attachment?
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