Haraprasad Das

The Blue Omnibus - Haraprasad Dasanka Kabita

Desha, Alokita Banabasa, Mantrapatha, Garbhagruha, Khuni Apsara

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Produktbeschreibung

The Blue Omnibus carries in it a significant body of the poetic oeuvre of the Odia Poet Haraprasad Das, one of the contemporary Indian Masters. This is the first of the omnibuses of his works that conveys in a cluster of five major works including a grand postmodern epic, the complex yet highly innovative nature of his Poetry. The classical, the modernist, the ethnic, the lyrical and the Avant Garde, jostle for space in his Poetry and succeed in creating a new language of poetry that valorizes and thereby validates the exclusive identity of Odia, both as a language and as a people. Haraprasad Das believes that poetry written in a language must retain in the end the irreducible minimum resonance of that language that is epiphanic, crystalline and inimitably original ! He has until now published more than eighteen works of poetry apart from a huge body of social and literary discourses. He is the recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award, the highest award of the National Academy of Letters, the prestigious Gangadhar Meher National Poetry Award, and the Moortidevi award of the Bharatiya Jnanpith, apart from numerous awards, honours and felicitations. Black Eagle Books hopes to hallmark the Indian poetic space with omnibuses carrying the entire body of the Odia Poetry of Haraprasad Das.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: BLACK EAGLE BOOKS
• Seitenzahl: 630
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2022
• Oriya-Sprache
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 876g
• ISBN-13: 9781645602903
• ISBN-10: 1645602907
• Artikelnr.: 64260315

Autorenporträt

Haraprasad Das, belongs to a brilliant generation of post-independent decolonized India which has taken on the complex phenomenon of heavily canonized western poetic idiom to reinstall and validate the multi-hued Indian identity of Indian Poetry through its classical and bhasha traditions. In fact the mainstreaming of the Indian voice in language(bhasha) poetry has been the handiwork of the poets of this generation, who came into prominence after the eighties of the twentieth century and who are presently the dominant trendsetters of future poetry in India. They have all attained iconic status in their own languages and are quietly subverting the borrowed idiom of modernity in its own manner ! Haraprasad Das, who is the recipient of some of the highest honours at the National level for his Odia Poetry is undeniably the most prolific and original Poet of that language whose oeuvre is an amazing vista of both prose and poetry overarching a classical grand tradition ! Readers would find in this Blue Omnibus the long epic poem Desh that has been hailed as the first Postmodern Epic of its genre in Hindi translation(Rajkamal/Delhi). The four other works show the way in which Haraprasad Das cut his way through the reigning styles and sensibilities of the time to make his unique brand of poetry stand out and usher in the New Wave in Odia Poetry. In fact with the publication of Alokita Banabasa in 1980 Odia Poetry witnessed a storm of sorts that uprooted the puritanical canons of poetic practice and declared the advent of new modernity in Indian Poetry in close league with similar scenes of dismantling and repositioning witnessed in other Indian languages ! The Blue Omnibus is as much a tribute to a redoubtable poetic genius of contemporary India as a showcase for the unstoppable creative energy of an epoch maker whose eyes are now set beyond the horizon. Haraprasad Das has published four of his most ambitious works in Poetry including his fourth epic poem Anna in 2022 and is working on his twentieth collection of Poetry.