Door of Paper: Essays and Memoirs

by Jayanta Mahapatra

This collection of prose of Jayanta Mahapatra, which brings together his engaging lyrical essays written over the last thrity years, should open a door and provide a deeper insight into his work. In these essays and memories Mahapatra ruminates over such things as what he finds in a good poem, how he feels about his own creative process and what governs hims 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 life hunger in Korapt or a cyclone in Orissa, he is trying to plumb mystery, an activity so dear to this conscientious poet.

Jayanta Mahapatra is a leading Indian poet. He has read and published his poetry all over the world. He has won such coveted awards as the Jacob Glatstein Memorial Award of Chicago's Poetry and the Sahitya Akademi Award.

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First published January 1, 2007

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.