Avidya
Ravinthiran, Vidyan2025
Book
Total copies: 2
'Avidya' is a political and a spiritual collection shaped by myth and philosophy, and by Sri Lankan as well as global crises. It is also a book about the forms of strength and fear that parents pass on to their children. These poems emerged from journeys of personal significance, and out of a migrant sensibility tied to three different countries. These poems emerged from journeys of great personal significance, and out of a migrant sensibility tied to three different countries. Sensuous, droll, yearning, they consider otherwise forgotten (ignored, repressed, erased) events. In 2017, Vidyan Ravinthiran travelled to the north of Sri Lanka where his parents grew up - it finally felt safe - visiting war-torn Tamil areas overwritten by a tourist focus on the sun-spoiled South. In 2020, he, his wife and their one-year-old moved from Britain to the United States, months before the pandemic hit and the travel ban separated them for almost two years from family overseas. Avidya is a political and a spiritual collection, whose multiple poetic forms, open and closed, are shaped by myth and philosophy, and by Sri Lankan as well as global crises. It is also a book about the forms of both strength and fear that parents pass on to their children.
Main title:
Avidya / Vidyan Ravinthiran.
Author:
Ravinthiran, Vidyan, author
Work:
Imprint:
Hexham : Bloodaxe Books, 2025.
Collation:
80 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
9 As a10 Your demon's basic12 Next time14 Trinco16 Nanthikadal17 Burnt palmyra18 Leaving Jaffna19 May 202120 The elephant22 The elephant23 Trinco24 A fisherman25 The last train26 The Annupoorunyamal27 My mother's English28 Every year30 Pillaiyar32 Lasantha Wickrematunge38 Autumn40 Mourning42 Sri Lanka44 Rama's bridge45 Karna57 My face59 Hillside temple60 Orts64 Travellers65 Eelam66 Research68 Jaffna, January 15, 202370 The Star of India71 As a child
ISBN:
9781780377391 (pbk)
Dewey class:
821.92
LC class:
PR6118.A388
Language:
English
BRN:
905730