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Selected Poems

Af: Lakdhas Wikkramasinha Engelsk Paperback

Selected Poems

Af: Lakdhas Wikkramasinha Engelsk Paperback
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Bold and original poetry from a leading figure of an underrepresented anglophone tradition.

Lakdhas Wikkramasinha is one of the major Sri Lankan poets of the twentieth century. Fearlessly political, “powerful and angry” (as Michael Ondaatje calls him in his memoir Running in the Family), Wikkramasinha has influenced generations of writers in Sri Lanka. Yet his work, originally self-published in limited editions, has long been inaccessible. This new volume, edited by Aparna Halpé and Ondaatje, is the first to offer a comprehensive selection of Wikkramasinha’s English poetry drawn from the original sources, most of which have never been reprinted. It is also the first to contain a representative selection of the poetry that Wikkramasinha composed in Sinhala, now translated into English by Udaya Prashantha Meddegama. An accomplished bilingual writer, deeply engaged with Sanskrit and Sinhalese traditions, Wikkramasinha also reveals himself to be a modernist shaped by his reading of Federico García Lorca and Osip Mandelstam, bringing a lyric style of great rhythmic force and imagistic compression to bear on his postcolonial present, as well as on the colonial and precolonial past.
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Bold and original poetry from a leading figure of an underrepresented anglophone tradition.

Lakdhas Wikkramasinha is one of the major Sri Lankan poets of the twentieth century. Fearlessly political, “powerful and angry” (as Michael Ondaatje calls him in his memoir Running in the Family), Wikkramasinha has influenced generations of writers in Sri Lanka. Yet his work, originally self-published in limited editions, has long been inaccessible. This new volume, edited by Aparna Halpé and Ondaatje, is the first to offer a comprehensive selection of Wikkramasinha’s English poetry drawn from the original sources, most of which have never been reprinted. It is also the first to contain a representative selection of the poetry that Wikkramasinha composed in Sinhala, now translated into English by Udaya Prashantha Meddegama. An accomplished bilingual writer, deeply engaged with Sanskrit and Sinhalese traditions, Wikkramasinha also reveals himself to be a modernist shaped by his reading of Federico García Lorca and Osip Mandelstam, bringing a lyric style of great rhythmic force and imagistic compression to bear on his postcolonial present, as well as on the colonial and precolonial past.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 160
ISBN-13: 9781681377346
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1681377349
Udg. Dato: 25 jul 2023
Længde: 27mm
Bredde: 270mm
Højde: 118mm
Forlag: The New York Review of Books, Inc
Oplagsdato: 25 jul 2023
Forfatter(e): Lakdhas Wikkramasinha
Forfatter(e) Lakdhas Wikkramasinha


Kategori Litteraturhistorie og kritik


ISBN-13 9781681377346


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 160


Udgave


Længde 27mm


Bredde 270mm


Højde 118mm


Udg. Dato 25 jul 2023


Oplagsdato 25 jul 2023


Forlag The New York Review of Books, Inc