Bücher von Mayadhar Mansinha

Kabi O Kabita (Poets and Poetry) is a collection of commentaries and essays on select Odia poets and their poetry, by Dr. Mayadhar Mansinha (also written as Mansingh), a poet and litterateur in his own right. Odia, the language of some 44 million people residing in Odisha State, India. Odia, and Odisha, has a long heritage of culture and the written arts. This compilation of 20 essays is but a sample of the riches of Odia literature. There are essays and commentaries on noted poets of Odisha ¿ Gopala Krushna, Radhanatha, Madhusudana, Gangadhara, Nanda Kishora, Kuntala Kumari, Gopabandhu, Nilakantha, Godabarisha, and Padmacharana. Two poets, not from Odisha also make the list; their poetry belongs to the whole world, Rabindranath and Shakespeare.

Dhoopa means an offering of incense, and is a fitting title for this book of sensual romantic poems, written in Odia, the language of Odisha State, on the east coast of India. The poems represent the outpourings of a young man's soul on fire, following an ever so brief crossing of paths, replete with wonder, longing, trysts, intimacy, ecstasy, separation, pain, questions, and finally acceptance, memories. The book of poems was published in 1931, while the author was still a student. The poems ushered in a new era in Odia poetry. Mayadhar Mansinha continued on to be a prolific poet and writer, but he is fondly remembered as a romantic poet, and the poems in Dhoopa are considered his best.