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Waking is another Dream

Poems on the Genocide in Eelam

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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?

There is no one to tell stories.

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 lament the loss of their land, their language and thousands of people. This powerful work demands that we not look away from the genocide in own backyard, where war crimes compare with Abu Gharib.

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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Author: Cheran, Jayapalan, Yesurasa, Latha, and Ravikumar
Year: 2010
Price: Rs. 180
Binding: Paperback
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Dimensions: 8.5 in x 6.5 in
Publisher: Navayana
ISBN 13: 9788189059378

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