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. Life\'s 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. She\'s none but you. 36. Stigma of the stress. 37. The girls of today. 38. The Indian girl. 39. The prime. 40. Time\'s 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. What\'s 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)