Hands Heave to Harm and Hamper : A Collection of Poems

Contents 1 Ailments 2 An elegy to the poem 3 An epidemic plague 4 An epistle to lady poem 5 Bihar the motherland of flood 6 Crying belly 7 Dispossessed motherland 8 Fatal festival  9 For me you have born 10 Hands heave to harm and hamper 11 Happy happy new year 12 How can forget O poem 13 If we unanimously unite 14 If you be my valentine 15 Improbable 16 Intolerance 17 Its easy and difficult 18 Killing of innocence 19 Let me live even in the dark 20 Lifes nothing but a race 21 Mind haunts with fear 22 Myopia 23 Neither not and but 24 None before and after 25 O Brave son of Mithila 26 Ode to danger 27 Ode to Promise 28 Ode to science 29 Oh mother 30 Only to heave a Sigh 31 O Valiant son of Bihar 32 Poem Princu and wife 33 Sage to self 34 Seldom celebrated 35 Shes none but you 36 Stigma of the stress 37 The girls of today 38 The Indian girl 39 The prime 40 Times come O Lord 41 To disease 42 To fame 43 To God Something due 44 To make house heaven 45 To peace 46 To the poem 47 Trauma of terror 48 Two poles apart 49 Whats life 50 Womens enemy only women 51 Jayanta Mahapatra in interview with Vivekanand Jha "In the era of scientific innovation and invention movie and fashion literature in general and poetry in particular is struggling for its survival The present collection of poems by Vivekanand Jha is a great endeavour to infuse a new life and soul into the poetry as it is written in colloquial and lucid language with great elegance of expression and justness of thought which would arrest attention even of common readers He intentionally avoids writing the poems loaded heavily with far fetched conceit and inscrutable images and symbols which restrict access only to the elite and persistent literati His main thematic concern is contemporary sorrows and suffering of the world He also emphasizes the soothing and therapeutic effect that reading and composing poems can render in the life of human beings Apart from that he dwells on some fundamental and perennial problems pertaining to his native place Bihar It is hoped with conviction that for its vigour of expression and maturity of outlook this book of poetry would be hailed as an outstanding contribution to contemporary English literature" jacket 92 pp.…