{"product_id":"the-votive-pen-nilanjana-sengupta-9789814882132","title":"The Votive Pen: Writings on Edwin Thumboo","description":"A riveting look at the fiercely original, intellectually brilliant mind of Singapore's unofficial Poet-Laureate, Edwin Thumboo whose poetry is key to understanding the emotional hinterland of the city-state. Born of Tamil and Teochew parents, Edwin Thumboo embraced the Protestant faith late in his life. He has a self-confessed fetish for Yeats and Pound and yet completed his doctoral thesis on post-colonial African poetry. He taught himself the Ramayana and I-Ching but found traces of the Odysseus in the shadows of the Merlion. He is brusquely vocal about poetry with a purpose and yet appears a hopeless romantic in his poems about his wife. What happens when a mind which is such a melting pot of brilliant ideas and contrary emotions tries to unscramble the identity of a country like Singapore which is complex, multiracial, has known a fierce economic growth that has often elbowed aside everything else? The Votive Pen sets out to see Edwin Thumboo's poetry steadily and see it whole--without the intervening static of earlier critical writing and with an intense alertness to the text.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nilanjana SenGupta\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9814882135\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789814882132\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/20\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Nilanjana SenGupta","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48519923138815,"sku":"9789814882132","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e8f57d15-785d-4dc9-8e13-dddf262fa7ed.jpg?v=1778739646","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-votive-pen-nilanjana-sengupta-9789814882132","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}