Jaya Mehta

An Odissi dancer and international performer, Jaya Mehta celebrates the poetic

resonance of life. For her, poems are the undercurrent of her creative process. She

seeks poetry in life: the poetry of Indian classical dance, the poetry of Indian

traditional painting and sculpture, the poetic quality of life. These poems are written

in English, but emerge from her experience of Odissi dance abhinaya in the Guru Surendra Nath Jena style.

This is her first volume of dance-poems. She lives and dances away in New Delhi

with her husband and two children.

Her poetry has been danced on stage in international dance productions and is

powerfully multi-dimensional. "The Poetic Saree" can be seen as nature-soaked dance videos on Jaya Mehta's Youtube channel, heard in an audio book, and read in this collection.

www.jayamehta.in/poetry

www.thepoeticsaree.com