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Lakdhas Wikkramasinha by Lakdhas Wikkramasinha (2023, Trade Paperback)
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Lakdhas Wikkramasinha (1941–1978) is considered to be among Sri Lanka’s foremost anglophone poets of the twentieth century. This fearlessly political poet influenced generations of writers in Sri Lanka, but his works are largely inaccessible at present, as they were self-published in limited print runs and only a few of his poems were widely anthologized.
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PublisherNew York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-101681377349
ISBN-139781681377346
eBay Product ID (ePID)23058383513
Product Key Features
Book TitleLakdhas Wikkramasinha
Number of Pages160 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicAsian / General, Subjects & Themes / Places, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year2023
GenrePoetry
AuthorLakdhas Wikkramasinha
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight5.3 Oz
Item Length6.9 in
Item Width4.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2022-029488
Reviews"Even though, in fact, hardly a photograph of him exists today, he has written some of the most permanent and iconic poems of [Sri Lanka]." --Michael Ondaatje, from the foreword
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal821.914
SynopsisBold 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., 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 Halpe 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 Garcia 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. This bilingual edition includes the original Sinhala versions of each poem.
LC Classification NumberPR9440.9.W657S45
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