Wild Words: Four Tamil Poets (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789351770879)

'A masterclass of contemporary Tamil poetry' - Namita Gokhale

In 2003, a group of men and women, setting themselves up as guardians of Tamil culture, objected publicly to the language of a new generation of women poets - particularly in the work of Malathi Maithri, Salma, Kutti Revathi and Sukirtharani - charging the women with obscenity and immodesty.

More than a decade later, a deep divide still persists in the way readers and critics perceive women poets. Tamil women poets have been categorized as 'bad girls' and 'good girls'. The traditional values prescribed for the 'good' Tamil woman are fearfulness, propriety and modesty. Our poets have chosen, instead, the opposite virtues - fearlessness, outspokenness and a ceaseless questioning of prescribed rules. This anthology celebrates the poetry of the four poets through Lakshmi Holmstrom's English translation.

Author: Lakshmi Holmstrom
ISBN-10: 9351770877
ISBN-13: 9789351770879
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Language: English
Published: 11/24/2015
Pages: 132
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.15lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.40d