Wild Words by Anthology and translated by Lakshmi Holmstrom

This is poetry from India.

Wild Words by Anthology translated by Lakshmi Holmstrom is published by HarperCollins India. This is a Book originally written in Tamil. This was published in 2015.0 and has the ISBN of 9.789351770879E12.

Wild Words is an anthology of Tamil poetry, translated by Lakshmi Holmstrom, published by HarperCollins India in 2015. It is an anthology of Tamil writing that foregrounds unruly speech, literary range, and the force of voices entering English together. As an anthology, its value is in widening the listening field, giving readers not a single poetic weather but a gathered intensity of language and encounter. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can be felt. Start with the pressure of the title, the texture of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. For this library, the book matters as more than a record of India; it is an invitation to let poetry remain particular, difficult, and alive without asking it to behave like explanation.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

Check out more of the always in-progress translated poetry index here.