Mayagherare Kalidas - Softcover

Jayasingh, Bhagaban

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1645600440 ISBN 13: 9781645600442

Publisher: Black Eagle Books, 2019

Synopsis

Mayagherare Kalidas (Kalidas in the Encircling Net of Maya), first published in 2002, happens to be the fourth anthology of Odia poems by Bhagaban Jayasingh, one of the most outstanding poets of our time now. This  long poem, rather a sequence of 33 poems, has been built upon the fundamental Hindu concept of 'maya' (Sanskrit: illusion), and our attachment to the things which are illusory in nature. Kalidas, the persona is that of a fallible 'everyman' who has a subjective misperception of the world as ultimately real. These poems have depicted Kalidas's experience of unreality through his attachment to life, love, pleasure and sex notwithstanding his response to human suffering, despair and death which he thinks are real. Jayasingh happens to be the first Odia and Indian poet to dwell upon maya as the persistent  and dominant theme of poetry.

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About the Author

Educated at Ravenshaw College, Cuttack and Allahabad University, Jayasingh is a celebrated Odia poet and a critic of eminence who writes both in Odia and English with equal ease and flourish. He has published seven volumes of poems in Odia, besides five volumes of poetry in English translation. His critical book, Door to Despair; Modernism in Odia Poetry, has been published by Authors Press, New Delhi. He has received several state and national level literary awards. His poetry has been widely translated into English and several Indian languages. An academician by profession, Jayasingh has served in several senior academic and administrative positions under Government of Odisha. Now he lives with wife, Indira, at the pilgrimage city of Puri in Odisha, India.

Edition details

• Publisher: Black Eagle Books
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1645600440
• ISBN 13: 9781645600442
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 76