{"product_id":"9789814882132","title":"The Votive Pen","description":"Author: Sengupta, Nilanjana\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9789814882132\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Penguin Random House SEA\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 26 Aug 2021\u003cbr\u003ePages: 280 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA riveting look at   the fiercely original, intellectually brilliant mind of Singapore's   unofficial Poet-Laureate, Edwin Thumboo whose poetry is key to understanding   the emotional hinterland of the city-state.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA   rivetting look at the fiercely original, intellectually brilliant mind of   Singapore's unofficial Poet-Laureate, Edwin Thumboo. Born of Tamil and   Teochew parents, he embraced the Protestant faith late in his life. He has a   self-confessed fetish for Yeats and Pound and yet completed his doctoral   thesis on post-colonial African poetry. He taught himself the Ramayana and   I-Ching but found traces of the Odysseus in the shadows of the Merlion. He is   brusquely vocal about poetry with a purpose and yet appears a hopeless   romantic in his poems about his wife. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat happens when a mind which is such   a melting pot of brilliant ideas and contrary emotions tries to unscramble   the identity of a country like Singapore which is complex, multiracial, has   known a fierce economic growth that has often elbowed aside everything else?   The Votive Pen sets out to see Edwin Thumboo's poetry - steadily and see it   whole - without the intervening static of earlier critical writing and with   an intense alertness to the text.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48198034653342,"sku":"UBD-9789814882132","price":29.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9789814882132.jpg?v=1787746051","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9789814882132","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}