Books published by Black Eagle Books

? ??à­? ?à­??? ?à­??, (I am alien to this land) is a metaphoric representation of the rootless self in a world full of atrocities and injustices.

"I have often wondered if Haldhar Nag graduated from a poetry school. Of course, that cannot be true, but my feeling arises from the abundance of figures of speech that appear in his poetry. Unknown to him, he sprinkles liberally the effects of alliteration, metaphors, internal rhyming, personification, onomatopoeia, and what have you in his usage. Ghensali (River Ghensali) is personification at its best, where the poet personifies a river in spate as a young lass in exuberance. And yes, he has come out with sonnets too. Read Ati (Too Much) to get a taste of Haldhar sonnet. The stanzas are spaced in 4, 4, 4, 2 lines, with a proper rhyme scheme. It leaves me in wonderment again - If he did not go to a poetry school, then did God plant all these literary usages in his head?For the sound effect, listen to Chaetar Sakaal (The Morning of March) - twelve stanzas replete withonomatopoeic works. Pity the translator who has to preserve the special effect in another language. I take recourse to the limitations of translation once again and state the obvious: Translations can never attain the beauty of the original. If we liken the original to an attractive painting, at best, the translation can be a replica or a photograph.A hallmark of Haldhar Nag's poetry is what I call the Haldhar twist. It is particularly prominent in his short poems. The poet takes an abrupt turn in the direction in the last stanza, not necessarily for summarizing or moralizing. The surprise turn in the final stanza, instead, leaves the readers with a 'wow' effect. Very many poems in this collection display the Haldhar twist - Our village Cremation Ground, A Cubit Taller, The Dove is my Teacher, and Old Banyan Tree, to name a few", writes the translator in his prefix.The collection has 60 poems.

An intense anthology, steeped in fearless intellect, Gayatribala Panda's poems are a comment on her socio-political landscape and the resultant human condition. Woven in her native language, varying from its most colloquial to its richest form and her land, its soil, its people and its legacy setting up a searing backdrop for her deep words, these poems are a comment on her homeland's greatest struggles, fissures and wounds across social categories, particularly the challenges, injustices and atrocities perpetrated against women in a largely patriarchal setup. Known for adding the human to the abstract, Gayatribala Panda gives us a slice of Odisha in verse to savour and to contemplate on.

India's one of the celebrated writers, Dr. Pratibha Ray's short story collection "Ketaki bana" has twenty-five magnificent short stories that would touch reader's heart instantly. Stories 'Shapya" and title story "Ketaki Bana" received New Delhi's Katha Puraskar in 1994 and 1999. "Moksha" was made a successful feature film. This collection has her powerful stories like "Ullanghan", "Hata Baksa" and "Kambal". Author has written a foreword on the success of a short story.

"My Love, My Seasons" is a collection of fifty poems of the Odia poet Shri Tapan Pattanaik, translated into English by Dr. Namita Laxmi Jagaddeb. The poems carry the poet's leitmotif of love, loss and longing. They invariably exhibit his acute perception of a relentless Time that impedes the flow of life, love and relationship along the rotations of seasons. The poems abound with sparkling metaphors drawn from the countryside Odisha on which the poet has dispersed his agonies seeking comfort, away from the crushing force of Time. Thus, sun, moon, stars, hills, forests, lake, rivers, rains, light, shade, and many more have come alive in the poems as natural companions of the poet engaging him in intimate dialogues on love, life and the beyond. Thanks to the superb craftsmanship of the translator; she has efficiently captured the poet's unique thoughts and feelings in an exquisitely matching diction that recreates the lyrical intensity and free flowing rhythm of the original poems.

Rupasi is a long poem by Mukul Mishra, a young poet from Odisha. It has thirty six sections. Mukul Mishra (born February 18, 1979) has three poetry collections in Odia to her credit, Apoorna (2015), Meghamanaa (2016) and Maayalagna (2017) published by Paschima. She has received 2017 Bhubaneswar Pustaka Mela award in 2017 and Odisha Lekhika Sansad Prafulla Kumari Jena Samman in 2018.