Tuesday, June 23, 2009

News at Eleven (Back Page): "Auschwitz from Colombo" is a piece of writing

packed with meaning and complexity which links the violence of the 1980's Sri Lanka, the genocide in Auschwitz and the vile deeds that resonate in the colonial history of Sri Lanka. In this aspect her [Anne Ranasinghe's] poetry reflects the trends in twentieth and twenty first century women's writing which draws connections between seemingly unconnected things as in Sylvia Plath's "Daddy" (pp.1636-38) where a father's abuse fascism of Nazi Germany, or the poetry of Diane Wakoski.

from The Sunday Times: Two local voices in anthology that transcends time and geography
also The Island: Everything depended on which way the wind was blowing

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