Udaya R. Tennakoon

Madness In The Western Shore (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Madness in the Western Shore: 65 Poetic Meditations on Politics and Being
About the Book

This collection of sixty-six poems gathers fragments of memory, philosophy, and political imagination into a lyrical meditation on the contradictions of our time. Written in a free-verse, fragmented style, the poems resist neat closure, lingering instead in paradox, silence, and unfinished thoughtmirroring the fractured realities of exile, displacement, and struggle.

Themes

The poems navigate a wide range of themes: the contradictions of power, the persistence of hope, the intimacy of exile, and the vast machinery of politics. They meditate on truth, honesty, mortality, and silence. Gandhi, Marx, Castro, and Che appear alongside anonymous refugees, children, dreamers, and silent comrades. Together, their voices form a chorus that questions the world as it is while gesturing toward the world as it might become.

Style and Language

Minimalist and fractured, the style is deliberate: punctuation bends to rhythm, sentences break mid-thought, and meaning arises from juxtaposition rather than argument. Haiku-like fragments meet sprawling meditations. This formal openness embodies the realities it portrayslives interrupted, histories obscured, truths unspokenyet within the breaks lies resilience and possibility.

Philosophy

Madness here is not only chaos but also insight, a way of seeing beyond conventional reason. The "Western Shore," emblematic of Enlightenment thought, becomes a place of both illumination and fracture. Newton's apple, Galileo's moon, and Socrates' hemlock transform into symbols of sacrifice, contradiction, and the price of truth.

Why Read This Collection

This is not a book of manifestos but of meditationspoems that accompany the reader through loss, uncertainty, and political struggle. It invites reflection, resists despair, and opens the space where imagination and being can breathe. Madness in the Western Shore belongs to readers who stand at the margins of systems and ask what lies beyond; to dreamers who still believe, despite everything, that the world is yet ours.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Udaya R. Tennakoon
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798224951024
• Artikelnr.: 75894909

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.