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Lakdhas Wikkramasinha
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/books/reviews/160735/lakdhas-wikkramasinha
'His widow remembers him as “[a] hypersensitive, highly strung, and complicated person.” He taught English at the University of Kelaniya; translated Mandelstam and Lorca into Sinhala; wrote during the first tumultuous decades of an independent #SriLanka; published eight volumes; and—like an earlier Romantic radical, Percy Bysshe Shelley—died by drowning. He left behind an extraordinary oeuvre, but too few readers know the work or even the name of the monumental postcolonial poet Lakdhas Wikkramasinha (1941–1978). “Hardly a photograph of him exists today,” observes Michael Ondaatje, who, with Aparna Halpé, has co-edited this unprecedented bilingual selection of Wikkramasinha for the NYRB Poets series.'
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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/books/reviews/160735/lakdhas-wikkramasinha
'His widow remembers him as “[a] hypersensitive, highly strung, and complicated person.” He taught English at the University of Kelaniya; translated Mandelstam and Lorca into Sinhala; wrote during the first tumultuous decades of an independent #SriLanka; published eight volumes; and—like an earlier Romantic radical, Percy Bysshe Shelley—died by drowning. He left behind an extraordinary oeuvre, but too few readers know the work or even the name of the monumental postcolonial poet Lakdhas Wikkramasinha (1941–1978). “Hardly a photograph of him exists today,” observes Michael Ondaatje, who, with Aparna Halpé, has co-edited this unprecedented bilingual selection of Wikkramasinha for the NYRB Poets series.'
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#poetry #BookReview