Woman In A FieldI want to paint your sky blue skirt spotted with hundreds of white islands, ocean on land before a primrosed field, grass green, hair a flame, talisman beside my keyboard, gift received. I thank you now, and dream of a world beyond my own eyes, of essences, sky,water, woman, primroses, grass. I say the peace that ...
Diplomática poesía Diplomático de profesión y poeta por impulso personal, el ceilandés nacionalizado estadounidense Indran Amirthanayagam presentará mañana su poemario “Sol camuflado” en el Centro Cultural de la Cancillería.Indran acaba de regresar del III Festival Internacional de Poesía “Luis Yáñez Pacheco”, desarrollado en la región Cajamarca (Cajamarca, Bambamarca, Chota), donde compartió días y noches de poesía, décima y Música con ...
Happiness Blues, Sri Lanka I don’t know what to say, my friend, I have some blues that don’t seem right, too light and fancy free, happiness and all that putty you poke and pat, grinning silly, but love is the matter with me, I have plenty and I want to start sharing the bounty. How lucky can a man ...
WORDS AFTER SEPTEMBER 11 We will not be quiet, Lord. We will not hide in books, Under our desks, Lord. We will not whisper In the rowdy street. We will hop On our “three-wheelers,” On the Morning Express, Wheel up the ramp And fly beyond The limits Of our comforts. We will explore again, And find ourselves Lost again. ...
What's Next?We are not going to give the fellows a pass with expressions of condolence, minutes of silence, then off they go to the NRA Convention in Houston while leaving instructions to block the latest attempt to forgive student loans, increase funds for Covid tests, fund food stamps, allow a woman the right to choose, and ban littering in ...
The Allen Ginsberg Project: Allen in Peru 1960: Beat scholarship - Pedro Casusol Tapias ' " Visiones Divinas (Divine Visions) - Allen Ginsberg’s Peruvian Trip" , an illum...
Resolution, 2013 Persistence of folly, need to write history, long march to oblivion, short trip to the mall, path in the woods to meet a woodchuck, song in competition with a buzzsaw, opposites united, writing thoughtlessly blind bludgeoning of rabbit’s eyes, violence incarnate, human now, forever, making peace afterwards in morning, holding ship of state afloat with rules of ...
Middle East EncounterSeeds were roasted on za'atar and grape leaves stuffed with sweetmeats. Falafel balls rolled on the platterand hummus and babaganoush sloshed patiently in bowls as we dipped pita bread and talked of atrocitiesfrom the eternal front, but we spoke with joy as musiciansshook tambours and beat drums, as dancers raised hands and swirled in front of us, and ...
The End, Not YetThe obus punchedthrough the wallof the creche,over-turned playpens and beds, blew up boys, girls,wrapped nowin shroudsrun throughGaza streetsmournedon Main and otherthoroughfaresincludingthe old stonesof the Old City,Tel Aviv, New York avenues,as far awayas Cho Fu Saand Timbuktu.Masked men, wielding guns,heads of governmentordering invasions, rockets lobbed over gated communities,will not stop human waves,lamentation, protests hurled.Fighting will stop again; we ...
Un fracaso, una mariposaCuando Nicanor me invitó a cenar ostiones e tomar cabernet en su casa de madera en la Reina conversamos en aquel 1995 de su visita a Nueva Delhi y su apego a la idea hinduistade dejar los lazos: familia, bienes, sexo, e caminar, un mendigo, por las calles antes de llegar al bosque para esperar el aleteo ...
Death of a Poet After the poet, who remains? We have to fill absence, distract ourselves with words and music until sadness fades, and we look to the sky, see his face in cumulus cloud, shining out of the sun, and think he is not the only one smiling in Heaven beckoning us to think beyond, the now, what happened to his body and to our history. Indran Amirthanayagam, October 6, 2012
New Release www.tsarbooks.com For interview, review & media requests: inquiries@tsarbooks.com Uncivil War Indran Amirthanayagam Passionate, committed, and deeply humane, these poems bear witness with unflinching honesty to the horrific violence of the Sri Lankan civil war. “Indran Amirthanayagam is above all the poet of the bloody Sri Lankan conflict and division. His work honours the sufferings of the living ...
Too MuchI don't think anyone has ever written a book about this,he tells me, tongue in jowl, but I suspend my disbeliefjust long enough falling completely before the jokethen smiling widely and on all sides of my faceand the subject. So, yes I am writing a book about love. I wrote before about a tsunami and an uncivil war. Now ...
The Present MomentIt is the way people live. It is the art of time.The time of the people.It is the stress of the moment,and in the present it is discomfort, neurosis and pain ...Are we still happy?Will we be glad, all of us,poor people living this atrocious life? Nothing offends our eyes! In our silence we live, woe unto us! ...
Ven esta noche en Lima, a las 7 pm, Casa de La Literatura para escuchar Lecturas Por Juarez Lectura Por Juarez Que la tierra nos trague, y las olas suban hasta que, ante la costa, se vuelvan montaña , y los peces sean expuestos al sol, y las lagartijas se sequen al borde de ríos hechos ya llanura, y ...
Some Notes on Rankont DoutIt means meeting in August, meeting with doubt, a meeting that takes place with the knowledge of parting, of a residence on earth ending. For this reason, the songs are full of nostalgia, and they are bittersweet. They note the impossibility of permanence. But they are also full of hope. In one song I write of ...
This TimeHorror, foul murder. butchering children, this America always with us, kept in news clips, remembered where I found myself the day the music...and all the accumulated rage about innocents in America, Asia, Europe ,Australia, Africa, will they ever get justice? Why allow killers to arm? Abbott, do you not feel any remorse, responsibility as governor letting murderers roam ...
A Day of Service (Trump's Booking)He used to be president. He said oncehe could stand in the middle of 5th Avenueand shoot a man and he would walk awayfree. Today he was arraigned for payingoff Stormy Daniels to keep quiet abouttheir past affair while he campaignedto take the oath and lead the countrythrough what turned out to be a ...
