Udaya R. Tennakoon

Haiku Diaku- A New Form of Exile Poetry (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

In Haiku Diaku, Udaya R. Tennakoon reimagines the classical Japanese haiku through the lens of exile, diaspora, and poetic resistance. Inventing the Diakua four-line form that expands the 5-7-5 haiku structure with a final 10-syllable line of reflection or ruptureTennakoon crafts a lyrical space where silence speaks, memory aches, and displacement breathes.

Rooted in the aesthetics of Japanese minimalism yet burning with the urgency of the contemporary migrant experience, these poems traverse borders both physical and psychological. From the cold bureaucracies of the Global North to the ghosted warmth of ancestral homelands, Tennakoon's verses witness the exilic condition with a clarity that is both philosophical and profoundly human.

Whether sketching a winter bus stop, a forgotten childhood, or the trace of surveillance in daily life, Haiku Diaku becomes a new poetic canon of survival. Spare yet saturated, each poem is a moment of pause in a world that refuses to wait. These are poems that listento breath, to injustice, to the quiet insistence of being.

For readers of diasporic literature, contemporary haiku, and politically engaged poetry, Haiku Diaku is both an aesthetic innovation and a resonant cry from the borderlands of belonging.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Udaya R. Tennakoon
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781005283575
• Artikelnr.: 75894514

Autorenporträt

As a Diaspora Poet, he lives in Zürich, Switzerland, but his home country is Sri Lanka, where he was born in 1970. Being a political refugee, he sees the world in many perspectives and engages with writing, theater, and research. Tennakoon graduated from University of Colombo and University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. At the University of Basel, Switzerland, and also at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, He has studied 'History' in his bachelor, 'Drama and Theater' and 'Peace and Conflict Transformation' for my master Studies. As a writer, he has published several books in Sinhala and has done some theater works. He contributes articles to many websites and also as a social activist, he has been engaging with many voluntary works inside Switzerland and Europe as well as outside in Nepal and Sri Lanka.