In a Time of Burning by Ceran and translated by Lakshmi Holmstrom

This is poetry from India.

In a Time of Burning by Ceran translated by Lakshmi Holmstrom is published by ARC Publications. This is a Book originally written in Tamil. This was published in 2013.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781906570323E12.

Cheran’s In a Time of Burning, translated from Tamil by Lakshmi Holmstrom, should be read with attention to fire as both historical condition and inward weather. Tamil poetry in translation often carries the weight of displacement, political violence, language struggle, and memory, but a book like this should not be reduced to context alone. The poems matter because they let a reader feel how a life continues in the middle of burning, how ordinary human attention survives inside catastrophe. Holmstrom’s translation gives English-language readers access to a voice shaped by witness and lyric restraint. For the library, this entry is important because it keeps Tamil poetry present as a living literature of grief, endurance, and exact feeling.

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