Over 80 poems from the 19th and early 20th centuries, including works about love and war, ships and the sea, farms and family, life and death, heaven and hell.

LETTERS TO THE HOME is a collection of poetry that seeks to explore family, memory, mental health, sexuality, grief, and trauma. The poems, ranging from four lines to one hundred, sliced in parts or told as one, written stream-of-conscious or slowly shaped, tell a story of grief and reconciliation. In these poems, cars almost crash, letters are never sent, odes are composed, and memories are unearthed. Achingly personal and stripped bare, LETTERS TO THE HOME is a raw examination of what it means to grow up mentally ill; to be "other" in a world that values sameness; to reconcile memory with fact; and, at the center of everything, what it means to lose a sibling.

The Selection Consists Of Bestof Dr.MahapatraýS Poems Capturing The Very Soul And The Spirit Of The Original Creation Of Him In Oriya. The Present Anthology Remains A Significant Work In The WriterýS Total Oeuvre. The Poems Combine Lyrical Grace With Metaphysical Intensity And Provide Eloquent Comment On The Complex Pattern That Is Modern Existence. The Original Work Won The Sahitya Akademi Award In 1974.