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Cheran Rudhramoorthy Tamil b 1960 Alaveddy alaveddi Sri Lanka is a Tamil poet playwright journalist and professor He is the author of than 15 books in Tamil and of three plays in English He also co edited an anthology of Tamil political poetry In his works he deals with the themes of identity ethnicity nationalism emigration and violence. A another sunrise Cheran has received several awards for literature and human rights including the English PEN Freedom to Write Award 2013 the University of Toronto International Poetry Award 2007 the Human Rights Witness Award Montreal 1998 and the Sri Lankan National Prize for Best Poetry 1994. A another sunrise His works have been translated into 16 languages including En Cheran Rudhramoorthy Tamil b 1960 Alaveddy alaveddi Sri Lanka is a Tamil poet playwright journalist and professor He is the author of than 15 books in Tamil and of three plays in English He also co edited an anthology of Tamil political poetry In his works he deals with the themes of identity ethnicity nationalism emigration and violence. A second sunrise pdf read online Cheran has received several awards for literature and human rights including the English PEN Freedom to Write Award 2013 the University of Toronto International Poetry Award 2007 the Human Rights Witness Award Montreal 1998 and the Sri Lankan National Prize for Best Poetry 1994. A second sunrise book review His works have been translated into 16 languages including English Arabic Bengali Chinese French German Spanish Indonesian Japanese Kannada Malayalam Dutch Sinhala Swedish and Telugu site_link The sea swallowed the sunsplitting open sprayingcrimson bloodover the clouds A Second Sunrise showcases the best poems of Cheran an accomplished poet of our times The Sri Lankan civil war looms over much of his work Poems of the precariousness of love are interwoven with poems of war The idyllic seascape of 1977 when Waves lap along the shorespreadingwithin methe sea is ruined forever by the experience of war 1981 89 These are followed by poems of exile and the experience of the diaspora 1993 2003 Now there is leftonly a great landwounded. A second sunrisem book No bird may fly over ituntil our return Finally 2004 onwards there are poems that take us to the devastation of May 2009 by when The sea has drained awayTamil has no territoryKinships have no name With such a wide range translators Lakshmi Holmstr m and Sascha Ebeling treat each poem both as fresh in its particularity and as part of the poet s oeuvre Their English renditions capture the resonances and rhythms that connect Cheran to a long Tamil poetic tradition that spans over two thousand years A Second SunriseEvocative and powerful A Second Sunrise Brilliant collection Each of these poems must be read than twice at least They are dark deep disturbing and delightful All at the same time A Second Sunrise When you are oppressed You see the blood of tears. A second sunrise kindle book review When you are the oppressor You see the tears of blood War A very short introduction These and many such poignant poems find a space in this collection of poems by Cheran His poetry demonstrates that the personal is political His reminiscing through the voice of the poet of his experience in Sri Lanka allows us to see from a deeply personal perspectice the human consequences of policial bestiality and ideological obsession Cheran s poems contribute to writing an alternative history of the ethnic conflict and civil war in Sri Lanka a history of the personal and the particular a history written by poets Cheran s poems harbour a sober voice of reason responsibility and human decency constituting a nagging presence to those perpetrating crimes against humanity A Second Sunrise