Poetry
ปณิธานกวี
Not translated into English
Angkarn Kalayanapong · 1986
Synopsis
A collection of poems crowned in 1986 by the Southeast Asian Writers Award. Its author, whose work invites us to leave foolishness behind and seek wisdom in nature and in the teaching of the Buddha, deploys in it an intense and rich language, freed from traditional forms.
Context
The collection earned its author the S.E.A. Write Award in 1986; he was its eighth Thai winner, in the poetry category. TK Park presents him as the greatest poet of the Rattanakosin era, famous for his verbal acrobatics, and recalls that his title of National Artist came to him above all from another book, Kawiniphon khong Angkarn. The Bangkok Post refers to it under the English title The Poet's Pledge.
Who it is for
For reading the poet who, in Thailand, shattered the classical forms of verse and of poetic language.
Prizes and reception
The Bangkok Post recalls that his beginnings were criticised for their departures from poetic conventions.
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