Jayanta Mahapatra's Book Relationship

Jayanta Mahapatra's Relationship Is a Leaves of Grass in miniature And here the Indian Walt Whitman Is talking of his relationship With the land of his birth, Its nativity, striking of roots and the soil, The historicity and ethos of it, The myth and mysticism of the land, The folk lore and the rhythms Doing the rounds Anthropologically, sociologically The woes and wails of it Seen in the repression or suppression Of the womankind, The superstitions and the mistaken beliefs, The rock-built temples And the faiths sustaining the people, The lakes, rivers and forests, The sea beaches and resorts, The tortoises and crocodiles, The mango orchards and black berries, The sun-burnt earth of summer, The dark daughters and the Shiva-lingam, The sacred spots of Sati And the lingam-yoni motif, A poem of mythical structure and delving It tells of Orissa and Orissan landscapes, Oriya myths and culture, Myth and mysticism And historicity.