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The Poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra (Fourth Revised and Enlarged Edition, 2009) is an incisive and well-researched book. It makes an in-depth analysis of the corpus of Mahapatra’s poetry from Close the Sky, Ten by Ten to Random Descent (2005). In this new edition, Mahapatra’s latest two books of verse, Bare Face and Random Descent, have been evaluated in the context of global poetry written in the Third World countries. This edition also includes an interview with the poet which highlights the aspects of Mahapatra’s art of writing poetry. The development of Mahapatra’s poetry from Modernism to Post-modernism and again from Post-colonialism to Neo-colonialism has been analysed in a lucid manner. This is an invaluable book on Mahapatra’s poetry.