[Reader-list] Waking is Another Dream: Poems on the Genocide in Eelam, 8 Dec 2010

[Navayana Publishing]

Navayana invites you to an evening of poetry, 6  p.m. onwards, on 8 Dec 2010
at The Attic

Cheran and Ravikumar  will read from their work

Anamika , Mangalesh Dabral and K. Satchidanandan will speak

Venue: The Attic, 36 Regal Building, Connaught Place, New Delhi 110 001

To reach The Attic: http://www.theatticdelhi.org/locate.html


Waking is Another Dream
Poems on the Genocide in Eelam

Cheran, Jayapalan, Yesurasa, Latha, Ravikumar
Ed. Ravikumar. Trans. Meena Kandasamy and Ravi Shanker

Rs 180 | 6.5 in x 8.5 in | Paperback | 9788189059378

*There is no one to tell stories.*

What happened between 8 and 18 May 2009 in Eelam? Did no one write diaries?
Did no one have cameras? Were there no poets there? Not a single artist?
Whatever happened on that last day? What is the poetry that can emerge from
a ‘wounded landmass’ where ‘no bird is able to fly’, where people ‘ate
death’?

*Nobody answered our questions.*

*To ask one of the dead, at least,*

*I went to the mortuary.*

*My corpse lay there,*

*the ribcage ripped apart*

*and in place of the heart*

*there was a grinding stone.*



Five frontline Tamil poets—Cheran, Jayapalan, Yesurasa, Latha,
Ravikumar—lament the loss of their land, their language and thousands of
people. They chronicle



*the people who have learnt*

*to pose for hours*

*clutching with ease*

*the barbed wire*

*without getting pricked.*


Translated into English for the first time, these poems introspect on why
waking is another dream in Sri Lanka.

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