DVA Suparna – Winner of Sahitya Akademi Award | Soubhagyakumar Misra

Review by Pinaki De on Odishabytes page

โ€‹Dva Suparna, published in 1984, is the sixth poetry collection of Soubhagyakumar Misra, the renowned Odia poet who has authored 17 poetry collections.

Dva Suparna received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1986 for being the salient Odia work of that year. It consists of 52 poems which in some way or other narrates the state of transition of the inner self.

In the recent release of the translated rendering of the work into English by renowned translator and poet Rabindra K Swain, the original work seems untarnished and seeks to find a new voice among global readership.

Dva Suparna, a mantra derived from Mundakopanishad, metaphorically explains two birds that symbolise the eternal relationship between the individual soul and the Supreme being. The allegory illustrates the journey from ignorance to spiritual liberation. The first poem of the collection โ€˜The White Bird, the Black Birdโ€™ elaborates more on this notion when it states โ€” If the sky were not as big as our old sky, only the white bird could fly, only the black bird could fly never both the white bird and the black bird at the same time Read more…

 

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