Out of Sri Lanka: Tamil, Sinhala and English Poetry from Sri Lanka and its Diasporas has a colorful, exotic cover with bright birds and flowers that does justice to its subject. Edited by Vidyan Ravinthiran, Seni Seneviratne, Shash Trevett, this 417 page tome is rich with material to ponder over. The introduction primes us for the poems to come, their background, Sri Lankan history and its heritage of war. Tamil, Sinhala, and Anglophone poetry all get air time here. Some poems and lines which ca