Author: Haraprasad Das
Translator(s): Ravi Nandan Sinha / Saswat S Das
Publisher: Sahitya Akademi
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 86
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8126016965
Description
This book, an English translation of award-winning Oriya poetry collection 'Garbhagriha', is a meeting ground of many elements: poems where the romantic and the cerebral meet halfway, poems with multiple meanings and hence open to different interpretations, poems where faith and agnosticism jostle and fight with each other – that is what one encounters in the Dark Sanctum.
Garbhagriha, the award-winning collection of poems, is noted for philosophical insights which effectively combine emotional fervor and highly expressive, unusual metaphors. The poems of this collection have a perfect rhythmic pattern and are appealing to a sensitive and intelligent reader. Hence the work is deemed an outstanding contribution to Indian poetry in Oriya.
Contents
Foreword
This Body
The Residues
The Swan Song
Aerial
Sacrificial Fire
In Anger
The Desert’s Soul
God in the Valley
Between Wars
The Last Bus
The Apparition
The Star in My Sleep
The Other
Neighbours
Only Once
The Last Hour of the Night
New Year
Barter
Fairy Tale
Wheel
The Sun: My Enemy