{"product_id":"tamil-terrains-poems-translations-reflections","title":"Tamil Terrains: Poems. Translations. Reflections","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat happens when a two-thousand-year-old language, rooted in a classical poetics of land, is moved, along with its peoples, through colonial and postcolonial upheavals, war and forced or voluntary migrations?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eQuestioning traditional concepts of  time, place, labour, love, purity and gender, this prismatic collection of poems, translations and transcreationsdraws connections between ancient Sangam landscapes and North America’s Indigenous lands, and between classical Tamil love poems and Southeast Asian migrant labour songs––tending, with care, the wounded memories of fisher-people, plantation workers, and undocumented refugees. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eOur own vazhinool runs through this book: our sense of indebtedness to the lands that hold us, and the lands we hold within us: \u003cspan lang=\"TA\"\u003eநெஞ்சநிலம்\u003c\/span\u003e, the landscape of our hearts. It is not without some sense of trepidation that we set it afloat now, across unknown lands and waters, into unknown hands. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublished:  USA, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Trace\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePages: 186\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eLanguage: English  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: \u003cspan\u003e9781775256786\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nedra Rodrigo \u0026 Geetha Sukumaran","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57422072119627,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/8755\/1819\/files\/Screenshot2026-05-23at14.43.23.png?v=1779540304","url":"https:\/\/desirelinesbookstore.com\/products\/tamil-terrains-poems-translations-reflections","provider":"desirelines books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}