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words and imagination are my weapons

On the Amnesty International website, the Tamil poet Cheran explains he has ‘no naive hope or belief that my poetry can turn the world upside down’; nevertheless, ‘words and imagination are my weapons. I have no other. There are several poems in my collections on disappearances evoking the friends …

—p.134 Granta 154: I’ve Been Away for a While Victim and Accused (133) by Vidyan Ravinthiran
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there are moments when prose turns to poetry why/read

There are moments when prose turns to poetry; when, reading a novel or a story, a sentence acts like a trapdoor you tumble through into a history previously unglimpsed, or (it could be one and the same) the injured textures of your own life. The eye that skims from page to page is swapped out, you …

—p.136 Victim and Accused (133) by Vidyan Ravinthiran
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there are moments when prose turns to poetry why/read

There are moments when prose turns to poetry; when, reading a novel or a story, a sentence acts like a trapdoor you tumble through into a history previously unglimpsed, or (it could be one and the same) the injured textures of your own life. The eye that skims from page to page is swapped out, you …

—p.136 Granta 154: I’ve Been Away for a While Victim and Accused (133) by Vidyan Ravinthiran
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words and imagination are my weapons

On the Amnesty International website, the Tamil poet Cheran explains he has ‘no naive hope or belief that my poetry can turn the world upside down’; nevertheless, ‘words and imagination are my weapons. I have no other. There are several poems in my collections on disappearances evoking the friends …

—p.134 Victim and Accused (133) by Vidyan Ravinthiran