{"product_id":"lakdhas-wikkramasinha-9781681377346b","title":"Lakdhas Wikkramasinha","description":"\u003cb\u003eBold and original poetry from a leading figure of an underrepresented anglophone tradition.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLakdhas Wikkramasinha is one of the major Sri Lankan poets of the  twentieth century. Fearlessly political, “powerful and angry” (as  Michael Ondaatje calls him in his memoir \u003ci\u003eRunning in the Family\u003c\/i\u003e),  Wikkramasinha has influenced generations of writers in Sri Lanka. Yet  his work, originally self-published in limited editions, has long been  inaccessible. \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThis new volume, edited by Aparna Halpé and Ondaatje, is  the first to offer a comprehensive selection of Wikkramasinha’s English  poetry drawn from the original sources, most of which have never been  reprinted. It is also the first to contain a representative selection of  the poetry that Wikkramasinha composed in Sinhala, now translated into  English by Udaya Prashantha Meddegama. An accomplished bilingual writer, deeply  engaged with Sanskrit and Sinhalese traditions, Wikkramasinha also  reveals himself to be a modernist shaped by his reading of Federico  García Lorca and Osip Mandelstam, bringing a lyric style of great  rhythmic force and imagistic compression to bear on his postcolonial  present, as well as on the colonial and precolonial past.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"New York Review of Books","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42817964834896,"sku":"9781681377346B","price":10.49,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781681377346-l.jpg?v=1785867093","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/en-ca\/products\/lakdhas-wikkramasinha-9781681377346b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}