In the following are some of the books by Jayanata Mahapatra available online. For the complete list of works by Jayanta mahapatra please refere to the secion below titled "The Complete List of Works".

 

Door Of Paper Essays & Memoirs by Jayanta Mahapatra (2007)

This collection of prose of Jayanta Mahapatra, which brings together his engaging lyrical essays written over the last thirty years, should open a door on and provide a deeper insight into his work. In these essays and memoirs Mahapatra ruminates over such things as what he finds in a good poem, how he feels about his own creative process and what governs him 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 like hunger in Koraput or a cyclone in Orissa, he is trying to plumb mystery, an activity so dear to this conscientious poet. Many of these pieces were first published in literary magazines in the US and Canada, notably in Dalhousie Review. The Hudson Review, Queen's Quarterly and World Literature Today, among others.

 

The Lie of Dawns 1974-2008 by Jayanta Mahapatra (2009) ISBN 978-81-9273-474-9 Authorspress, New Delhi (2009)

In this comprehensive volume, Jayanta mahapatra, who has been called the "finest multicultural poet writing in India" brings his own choice of the finest poems he has written over past thirty five years. A revelatory selection for readers who are familiar with his work, and for readers who are coming upon his impressive poetic acheivement for the first time.

"Few contemporary poems in our world impress me more than these" -- Vernon Young: The Hudson Review
".. few poets in our century have evoked 'the still, sad music of humanity' so movingly as Mahapatra" -- John Barnie : Kunapipi 

Published by Authorspress,  E-35/103, Jawahar Park Laxmi Nagar, Delhi 110 092
Email: authorspress@yahoo.com
Pages 197,
Price: Rs 350   USD 15
ISBN 978-81-9273-474-9
Year of Publication 2009

 

Orissa by Jean-Louis Nou & Jayanta Mahapatra (1987) Lustre Press Pvt. Ltd. 1987

J.L.Nou's long and intimate association with India began with The Art of India and The Civilization of India  which were illustrated by him. In collabaration with Indira Gandhi, he published some more books on India. He photgraphed extensively and has contributed pictures to several books by Lustre Press. Jayanta Mahapatra, one of the finest Indian poets writing in English, was born and brought up in Orissa, and he represented it with the visuals of Jean in this book in an extraordinary way.

The Complete List of Works:

List of Poetry in English

                                                       Close the sky, Ten by Ten, Culcutta. Dialogue Publication,1971

                                                       Svayamvara and Other Poems, Calcutta. Writers Workshop,1971

                                                       A Father’s Hours, Calcutta. Writers Workshop, 1971

                                                       A Rain of Rites, Athens (USA).  University of Georgia Press, 1976

                                                       Waiting, New Delhi. Samkaleen Prakashan, 1979

                                                       The False Start, Bombay.  Clearing House, 19800

                                                       Relationship, Greenfield, New York. Greenfield Review Press, 1980

                                                       Life Signs, New Delhi. Oxford University Press, 1983

                                                       Dispossessed Nests,

                                                       Selected Poems, New Delhi. Oxford University Press, 1987

                                                       Burden of Waves and Fruit, Washington, DC.  Three Continents Press, 1988

                                                       Temple, Sydney/Mundelstrup/Coventry.  Dangaroo Press, 1989

                                                       A Whiteness of Bone, New Delhi. Viking Penguin, 1992

                                                       The Best of Jayanta Mahapatra, Kozhikode. Bodhi Publications, 1995
Shadow Space, Kottayam. D.C.Books, 1997

                                                       Bare Face, Kottayam. D.C.Books,2000

                                                       Random Descent, Bhubaneswar.  Third Eye Communications, 2005

                                            The Lie of Dawns: Poems 1974-2008, New Delhi, Authorspress, 2009

 

 

Poetry in Oriya

                                                       Bali (The Victim) Cuttack. Vidyapuri, 1993

                                                       Kahibi Gotie Katha (I’II Tell A Story), Cuttack. Arya Prakashan, 1995

                                                       Baya Raja (The Mad Emperor), Cuttack. Vidyapuri, 1997

                                                       Tikie Chhayee (A Little Shadow), Cuttack. Vidyapuri, 2001

                                                       Chali (Walking), Cuttack. Vidyapuri, 2006

                                            Jadiba Gapatiayy, Cuttack. Friends Publishers, 2009

 

 

Translations of Poetry

 

                                                       Countermeasures: Poems, Calcutta. Dialogue, 1973

                                                       Wings of the Past: Poems, Calcutta. Rajasree, 1976

                                                       Song of Kubja and Other Poems, New Delhi. Samkaleen, 1981

                                                       I Can, But Why Should I Go: Poems, New Delhi. Sahitya Akademi, 1994

                                                       Verticals of Life: Poems, New Delhi. Sahitya Akademi, 1996

                                                       Tapaswini: a Poem, Bhubaneswar. Orissa Sahitya Akademi, 1998

                                                       Discovery and other Poems, Kolkata. Writers Workshop, 2001

                                                       A Time of Rising (Poems), New Delhi. Har-Anand, 2003

 

 

Short Stories

                                                       The Green Gardener, Hyderabad. Orient Longman, 1997

Others

 

                                                       Orissa, New Delhi. Lustre Press, 1973.

                                                       Poemas (in Spanish), Mexico. Instituto de Cultura de Campeche, 1994

                                             Door of Paper : Essays & Memoirs, New Delhi, Authorspress, 2007

Autobiography in

 

                                                       Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, Volume 9

                                                       (Mark Zadrozny, Editor), Detroit, Gale Research Inc., 1989

 

Anthologies

 

                                                       Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets, Delhi. Oxford University Press, 1976

                                                       The Poetry Anthology 1912-77, Boston. Houghton Miflin Co., 1978.

                                                       Literary Olympians II, Westlake Village (USA). Crosscurrents Anthologies, 1987.

                                                       1986-88 Anthology of Magazine Verse, (USA). Monitor Book Company, 1988.

                                                       Twelve Modern Indian Poets, Delhi. Oxford University Press, 1992

                                                       Literary Olympians 1992, Boston. Ford-Brown & Co., 1992

                                                       The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry, New York.
Random House, 1996.

                                                       The Poetry Anthology, 1912-2002, Chicago. Ivan R Dee, 2002