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About the bookThe book contains a collection of forty poems, some of which are translated from Odia. The poems center around an aware, sensitive and self-exploring 'me', addressing to an absent, mysterious, subtle and adored 'other', an inaccessible beloved being, who is sometimes explicit and sometimes implicit. These poems are an attempt to speak to him, to get him to speak back to 'me', and above all, to express 'my' love and passion, to eventually recover from suffering due to 'my love' and redeem 'my life'. The poems are painted with emotions of joy and sorrow at unions and separations, grief and hurt feelings contained by various themes with apt imagery metaphors and evocative language.About the AuthorMamata Dash is a renowned figure from Odisha. She has a multidimensional personality in the sphere of literature covering poetry, fiction, literary criticism and translation. Her other fields of interest are spiritual discourses, socio-cultural works and philanthropic missions. She occasionally writes in English. She has published eight collection of poems, three short story collections, one novel, one book on literary criticism in Odia and fifteen books as translation from English and Bengali. Besides, she has published a number of scholarly, informative and feature type articles in various journals.Among her awards and honors she has received are: Odisha Sahitya Akademy Award, Bhanuj Rao Award from Gangadhara Rath foundation, Bharata Naik Smriti Sammana from Sambalpur University, Odisha, Fellowship from Government of India (Department of culture). She has carried out research work on The genesis and evolution of 'Radha Consciousness'.Mamata lives in Pondicherry and Bhubaneswar pursuing her literary and other cultural and philanthropic works.