Bare face: Poems

by Jayanta Mahapatra

Bare Face, a collection of poems by Jayanta Mahapatra - one of India’s most popular Indian English poets - incorporates the sounds of temple bells, the prayers of priests, the funeral pyres, the uncomplaining acceptance of the past, representing a possible reality or a mentality to which he did not belong.

79 pages, Paperback

First published December 12, 2010

About the author

Jayanta Mahapatra (22 October 1928 – 27 August 2023) was an Indian English poet. He is the first Indian poet to win a Sahitya Akademi award for English poetry.