A Country Entrapped
`Why does the Third World Hate us so much?` The American citizen asked himself As he ran along the street. In the aftermath of 9/11 and the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York, America learnt a lot about itself. Just who was to blame for this apocalyptic disaster is the subject of the first of these two extended poems by a Sri Lankan Tamil, someone who instinctively aligns himself with the Third World in the quotation above. His second poem, `The Song of a Liberated Zone`, is focused on north-east Sri Lanka (Ceylon), home to the oppressed Tamil people. The Tamils could be likened to the Catholics in Northern Ireland during `the Troubles`. The islands off the northern Sri Lankan coast (`ants, crawling on the tip of a mango`)...
Дата выхода: январь 2007
