
Wilting Laughter: Three Tamil Poets
"I dont get the point of reading translated poetry," said...
Poetry. South Asian Studies. Translated and Edited by Chelva Kanaganayakam. This collection brings together seventy-five poems by three internationally known Tamil poets--R Cheran, V.I.S. Jayapalan, and Puthuvai Ratnathurai--whose works, over the last three decades, have dealt with issues ranging from ethnicity and nationalism, to religion and diaspora. Together they have shaped the Tamil literary tradition, urging the reader to look at the past and present in new...
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- ISBN: 9781894770590 / 0
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"I dont get the point of reading translated poetry," said a friend. "So much of it is lost."So I didn't tell her then that I was reading this volume of poetry and I also didn't tell her how much I was struggling with everything that had clearly been lost in its translation from Tamil to English. That isn't necessarily a reflection on...