In a Time of Burning (ARC Visible Poets)

Cheran

ISBN 10: 1906570329 / ISBN 13: 9781906570323

Published by ARC Publications, 2012

The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine. Seller Inventory # GOR012307911

Synopsis:

This selection of poems by Cheran, one of the most important poets writing in Tamil today, charts the civil war in Sri Lanka of more than three decades, and its aftermath, in a narrative set against a landscape once idyllic, now devastated. Yet this is not the only narrative in this book: woven throughout are love poems - which, even in his earliest work, are shadowed by uncertainty and loss - and poems about displacement, exile and the experience of diaspora.

Translated by Lakshmi Holmström and with an introduction by Sascha Ebeling

About the Author: Cheran was born in Alaveddy in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, and began writing poetry at a young age. His two early collections, together with an anthology of Tamil resistance poems, are all landmarks in contemporary Tamil poetry. In 1999 Cheran received a creative non-fiction award from the Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada. He is currently a professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Windsor, Toronto, Canada.

Bibliographic Details

Title: In a Time of Burning (ARC Visible Poets)
Publisher: ARC Publications
Publication Date: 2012
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good