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Lakdasa Wikkramasinha of the takarang shed-By GAMINI DE ALWIS<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n

\"Lakdasa<\/p>\n

Source:<\/span><\/strong>Island<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

George Braine in his article \u201cShakespeare in a takarang shed\u201d, which appeared in the\u00a0Midweek Review\u00a0<\/i>a few weeks ago, referred to Lakdasa Wikkramasinha as being \u201cregarded as perhaps Sri Lanka\u2019s best (poet), writing in English.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

It is painful to admit here that I had never read Lakdasa until then. I scrolled through the web and managed to get a few of his works, and became an immediate convert after reading them. His publications are all out of print, which is not surprising. Books of poetry in English in Sri Lanka usually go out of print very soon after publication. What really surprised me was that they were all very slim booklets and some were private publications undertaken by Lakdasa himself. By the time of his untimely death at the age of 36, any plans he may have had to bring out a collection at some later date died with him.<\/span><\/p>\n

Assuming that those, who took up the English language seriously, would be familiar with his work, I contacted my friends and relations, who are all serious students of the language. I began to receive a number of his poems. Finally, I contacted Professor Tiru Kandiah in Perth, who very generously arranged for me to access copies of his collection.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

I did not find a single of his poems contrived and they were all different. The underlying conflict of his \u201cEnglish\u201d education with his native identity resonated with me. I live in Melbourne trapped by my affection to my sons and grandchildren, yet I sing with poignant intensity\u00a0Sasara Vasana Thuru<\/i>, whenever I meet with my old mates here, yearning to be reborn there. Lakdasa writes in English yet manages to flavour the conversation between Iddamalgoda Manike and Ysinno into near Sinhala. He admits proudly his privileged lineage, yet his sensitivity to the disenfranchised and his social consciousness is evident in \u201cThe Death of Ashanthi\u201d, which I reproduce below.<\/span><\/p>\n

In my youth, I pursued and appreciated the beauty of the abstract in giving mathematical expression to the physical world around us. Mathematics could be considered at the opposite ends of the spectrum to Poetry. Perhaps the four years at Peradeniya, coming under the influence of Sarathchandra and Halpe, the blessings of interactions with others from varied back grounds and a library with a section full of Russian translations, find me like Ysinno with my \u201clines being not all dead\u201d. For the likes of us, who may have missed Lakdasa Wikkramasinha, he needs to be revived. I wrote to George Braine in search of his poems. Very soon we resolved to bring out an anthology of his works. In his search for a photo of Lakdasa, he found out to our mutual delight that an anthology of Lakdasa\u2019s collected works is in the making. I am so looking forward to it.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the meantime, I reproduce one of his poems. Any of us who would have had servants would be affected. Any of us who would not squirm at our dismissive attitudes but defend ourselves saying \u201cwe treat our servants well\u201d, are not touched by Lakdasa\u2019s poetry. I do not want to analyse his poems as I am not academically competent to do so. Besides, I am afraid that the spectre of Lakdasa Wikkramasinha will visit me and sternly demand to know why I did not allow the reader to be moved by his poem, without obscuring it with a commentary. I consider this simply as a frame, an excuse, an apology, to present a beautiful work as it is.<\/span><\/p>\n

The death of Ashanthi<\/span><\/p>\n

A girl I knew her<\/span><\/p>\n

saw her once or twice eating<\/span><\/p>\n

or washing the pots & pans, used to sleep<\/span><\/p>\n

on a campbed in the hall. She was perhaps used<\/span><\/p>\n

by my cousin: private in the army,<\/span><\/p>\n

put to look after the pigs (He had a share<\/span><\/p>\n

in the house being the last male<\/span><\/p>\n

in the line;) for the sake of blood<\/span><\/p>\n

I remember I\u2019d nearly married his<\/span><\/p>\n

epileptic sister (the one who two months back<\/span><\/p>\n

set fire to the leased-out firewood shed<\/span><\/p>\n

in the garden one night using kerosine}<\/span><\/p>\n

Ashanthi was different & I don\u2019t know<\/span><\/p>\n

how many she\u2019d give herself to<\/span><\/p>\n

To keep alive \u2013<\/span><\/p>\n

& a two-year old kid she had; but yesterday<\/span><\/p>\n

I heard she\u2019d drunk acid, raising a great<\/span><\/p>\n

marsh howl inside the old house as it burnt<\/span><\/p>\n

her insides & she dies, a seven-month baby<\/span><\/p>\n

in her belly; no one even wished to know<\/span><\/p>\n

who the father was, perhaps there were too many,<\/span><\/p>\n

perhaps it was my cousin the pig<\/span><\/p>\n

bearer of a name petering out in such<\/span><\/p>\n

maledictions. I noticed her earlobes<\/span><\/p>\n

they were longer than usual as if<\/span><\/p>\n

gold rings of great intricacy<\/span><\/p>\n

& weight had hung from them; & then the familiar black stork<\/span><\/p>\n

danced in the hall<\/span><\/p>\n

once more, among an army of spines,<\/span><\/p>\n

an army of men centuries old who watched & gloated<\/span><\/p>\n

as she lay heaped on my lap, packed<\/span><\/p>\n

with white seed<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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