

Book Title: | A Second Sunrise |
Author: | Cheran |
ISBN-13: | 9788189059507 |
Publication: | Navayana (2012) |
The sea swallowed the sun splitting open, spraying crimson blood over the clouds. A Second Sunrise showcases the best poems of Cheran, an accomplished poet of our times. The Sri Lankan civil war looms over much of his work. Poems of the precariousness of love are interwoven with poems of war. The idyllic seascape of 1977 when Waves lap along the shore spreading within me the sea is ruined forever by the experience of war (1981 89). These are followed by poems of exile and the experience of the diaspora (1993 2003). Now there is left only a great land wounded.No bird may fly over it until our return. Finally, 2004 onwards, there are poems that take us to the devastation of May 2009, by when The sea has drained away Tamil has no territory Kinships have no name. With such a wide range, translators Lakshmi Holmstr m and Sascha Ebeling treat each poem both as fresh in its particularity and as part of the poet s oeuvre. Their English renditions capture the resonances and rhythms that connect Cheran to a long Tamil poetic tradition that spans over two thousand years.
Poetry
Paperback
English
160 pages
8189059505
2012
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