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    In a Time of Burning
    In a Time of Burning
    In a Time of Burning
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    In a Time of Burning

    By Cheran

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    This selection charts the civil war in Sri Lanka, a war which has raged for more than three decades, and left a once idyllic landscape devastated. Together these works encapsulate the Tamil story of exile and displacement, of love overshadowed by uncertainty and loss. Introduced by Sascha Ebeling.
    Translated by Lakshmi Holmström.
    Amma, don't weep.
    There are no mountains to shoulder your sorrow
    there are no rivers
    to dissolve your tears.
    The instant he handed you
    the baby from his shoulder,
    the gun fired.

    (from 'Amma, don't weep', 1985)
    Cheran was born in Alaveddy in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. His two early collections, A Second Sunrise (1982) and God of Death (1984), and an anthology of Tamil resistance poems, Amidst Death, We Live (1985), are all landmarks in contemporary Tamil poetry. He currently teaches at the University of Windsor, Toronto.
    Lakshmi Holmström recently co-edited The Rapids of a Great River: the Penguin Book of Tamil Poetry (2010). From 2003 to 2006, she was a Royal Literary Fund fellow at the University of East Anglia.
    This book is also available as an ebook: buy it from Amazon here.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArc Publications
    Release dateDec 1, 2012
    ISBN9781908376312
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      In a Time of Burning - Cheran

      THAW
      DESHIELOS

      Published by Arc Publications,

      Nanholme Mill, Shaw Wood Road

      Todmorden OL14 6DA, UK

      www.arcpublications.co.uk

      Original poems copyright © Víctor Rodríguez Núñez 2013

      Translation copyright © Katherine M. Hedeen 2013

      Design & cover photograph by Tony Ward

      Printed in Great Britain by TJ International Ltd, Padstow, Cornwall

      978 1908376 03 9 (pbk)

      978 1908376 04 6 (hbk)

      978 1908376 31 2 (ebook)

      Cover design: Tony Ward

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      Earlier versions of some of these translations have appeared in the following journals:

      "thaw 95, 96, 97" in Poetry Wales 46.3 (Winter 2010 / 2011): 29.

      "thaw 20" in Kenyon Review Online (Fall 2010).

      "thaw 18, 23, 24, 44, 59" in Salt Magazine 3 (March 2010).

      This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to provision of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part of this book may take place without the written permission of Arc Publications.

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      Series Editor: Jean Boase-Beier

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      D E S H I E L O S

      Translated by

      Katherine M. Hedeen

      Arc.TIF
      2013
      For Juan Gelman

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