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Synopsis The book is the most uptodate study of Jayanta Mahapatra’s poetry and is a must for the students, teachers and researchers. The poetic monument of Jayanta Mahapatra is built of landscape, ruins in the cultural geography of the land of his birth, shattered relationships, women in their woes, religious mysticism, whore-house, holyshrines, maritime history, vanquished dynasties, cruelties of kings, the Dance of Shiva, and concepts of silence, solitude, darkness, death, time, wings, language, ambiguity, surreal imagination and so on. Imagery is the expressive medium of his vision. By his art he has consciously involved himself in decolonising English by acclimatizing it to the tradition and culture of India and has thus evolved the poetics of India-EnglishHis art epitomizes binary cultures. i.e., scientific and artistic, Christian and Hindu, western and India, and colonial and post-colonial. His self-sculpture, poetry is his mystery and mantra, phosphorescence and fragrance. Though his is a poetry of non-comment, poetry that centres round silence, and grapples with the age-old sorrows of the society, that really presents a gravid sociology of the human soul. Jayanta Mahapatra (1928-), the physicist turned poet, is a major contemporary voice in Indian English literature as well as the world literature. His poetry has been a vital influence on several contemporary Indian poets. Imagery being the focal crux of his design, he has been a visionary of the essence and sublimity of the culture, life and time.