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Lakdhas Wikkramasinha / by Lakdhas Wikkramasinha ; edited by Aparna Halpé and Michael Ondaatje ; with translations from the Sinhala by Udaya Prashantha Meddegama.
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- ISBN: 9781681377346
- ISBN: 1681377349
- Physical Description: xxxiv, 117 pages ; 18 cm.
- Publisher: New York : New York Review Books, [2023]
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | Camōes: A history -- Hand bomb et cetera -- Stones of Aukretiye Walauva. |
| Summary, etc.: | "Lakdhas Wikkramasinha (1941-1978) was arguably Sri Lanka's most influential poet of the 20th century.1 Wikkramasinha who wrote in both English and Sinhala, published eight volumes of poetry between 1965-1977, before his death by drowning in 1978. He attended the elite boys school St. Thomas College, Mt. Lavinia, and went on to study law briefly before becoming an instructor in English at the University of Peradeniya"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Language Note: | Mostly original English poems; Sinhalese poems include an English translation. |
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| Subject: | Poetry > Male authors > Translations into English > Sri Lanka. Sinhalese poetry > 20th century > Translations into English. |
| Genre: | Poetry. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.
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Table of Contents
Lakdhas Wikkramasinha
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| Foreword | xiii | |
| Introduction | xxi | |
| A Note on the Selection | xxxii | |
| Acknowledgments | xxxiv | |
| Camoes: A History | ||
| Memorial | 3 | |
| From the Twelfth Century | 4 | |
| Dandhabanavaka | 5 | |
| Camoes: A History | 6 | |
| In the King's Jail | 9 | |
| Heavy with Love | 10 | |
| Antonio Barrettu | 11 | |
| O PrÃncipe Negro | 12 | |
| LuÃs de Camoes | 13 | |
| Kuveni | 14 | |
| Hearts of Granite | 16 | |
| Nossa Senhora dos Chingalas | 18 | |
| From the Life of the Folk-Poet Ysinno | 19 | |
| The Cobra | 20 | |
| The Refuge: Doova, Cota | 21 | |
| In Ancient Kotmale | 11 | |
| The Silambari Design | 23 | |
| The Good Painter | 24 | |
| The Headman's Son | 26 | |
| Tree Gone Crazy | 27 | |
| For a Certain Good Woman | 29 | |
| Day-Dream | 32 | |
| Cold of the Kumbuk Tree | 34 | |
| Recipe for a Sinhalese Novel | 36 | |
| Hand Bomb Et Cetera | ||
| Don't Talk to Me About Matisse | 39 | |
| The Poet | 40 | |
| Turn Me Over | 41 | |
| The Mask | 42 | |
| Osip Emilievich Mandelshtam (1891- ) | 43 | |
| The Fugitive | 45 | |
| Avariya | 46 | |
| Discarded Tins | 47 | |
| Hospital Poem | 48 | |
| The New Morning | 51 | |
| The British Council | 53 | |
| Stones of Akuretiye Walauva | ||
| The Flames, 1972 | 57 | |
| Stones of Akuretiye Walauva | 58 | |
| The Three Sisters | 59 | |
| The Waters | 61 | |
| Five Swords | 62 | |
| Weapons | 64 | |
| Wedding Night | 66 | |
| The Distaff | 67 | |
| The Sisters | 70 | |
| Coconuts | 71 | |
| The Fiat Car Near the Firewood Shed | 73 | |
| Beside Apollinea | 75 | |
| Umbrella | 77 | |
| Red Letter | 78 | |
| Poem with a Grimace | 79 | |
| The Wisdom Won of Ancient Battles | 82 | |
| The Death of Ashanti | 84 | |
| 1950-1959 | 86 | |
| To My Friend Aldred | 87 | |
| The Cockerel | 89 | |
| Ascription | 91 | |
| Poem for a Jubilee | 92 | |
| Dead Train | 93 | |
| Disciple | 94 | |
| If I Am Collecting Things | 95 | |
| Middle | 96 | |
| The Deaf Man | 97 | |
| Work of a Professor | 98 | |
| Country School (1967) | 99 | |
| From Garcia Lorca | 101 | |
| Tomorrow | 103 | |
| Lakdhas Wikkramasinha: In Memory | 105 | |
| Notes | 107 | |
| Works by Lakdhas Wikkramasinha (1965-1981) | 113 |
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