J.P. Das:Selected Poems

This volume puts together a selection from the English translations of J.P. Das’s poems written over the last four decades. These translations have earlier appeared in eleven collections—from the earliest First Person (1976) to the latest J.P. Das Omnibus (2012). The poems are arranged chrono-logically as they appeared over the years in original Odia. Names of translators are given at the ends of poems where the translation is not by the poet himself. If contemporary Oriya poetry has acquired a