Poetry books from Sri Lanka
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If you are into poetry here are some poetry books from Sri Lanka for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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Out of Sri Lanka : Tamil, Sinhala and English Poetry from Sri Lanka and Its Diasporas by Vidyan Ravinthiran, Seni Seneviratne, Shash Trevett EN
Description:
This first ever anthology of Sri Lankan and diasporic poetry features over a hundred poets writing in English, or translated from Tamil and Sinhala. It brings to light a long-neglected national literature, and reshapes our understanding of migrational poetics and the poetics of atrocity. In this anthology, poets long out of print appear beside exciting new talents; works written in the country converse with poetry from the UK, the US, Canada and Australia. Poems in traditional and in open forms, concrete poems, spoken word poems, and experimental post-lyric hybrids of poetry and prose, appear ... continue