Jayanta Mahapatra As A Poet

Jayanta Mahapatra as a poet Is first of all An imagist, A photographer Then an Oriya, A pencil artist Making silhouettes, A marker of man-woman relationship Intriguing and bewitching, Absurdist Inducting absurdities Of this living and creation, A nihilist, An existentialist, A lover bodily, A feminist, A realist, Eco-centric, Cartographic and coastal Mapping Orissa And the Orissan landscapes Vedic, Upanishadic, Historical, Architectural, Sculptural, Archival, Museumological, One of the dark daughters, Devadasis and nautch girls Drawing from The terracotta plates Embossed on the temples.