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Teardrops of Time: Buddhist Aesthetics in the Poetry of Angkarn Kallayanapong (SUNY Press, 2020) “Arnika Fuhrmann’s ambitious project to investigate all possible aspects of Angkarn’s oeuvre, ranging from Buddhist temporal ontologies to transnational trends in modern poetics, is laudable, as it paves a new path for Thai literary studies beyond national boundaries and nationalist ideology. By contextualizing Angkarn’s works within the local literary culture under the military regimes in Thailand as well as within global literary movements and global cultural production, Fuhrmann is able to offer a better understanding of Angkarn’s innovative poetics and identify the literary and political impacts of his works.” — Chusak Pattarakulvanit, Thammasat University "Arnika Fuhrmann's TEARDROPS OF TIME is a profound study of Angkarn Kallayanapong's poetry, a work of warm sensitivity and formidable scholarship. Poetry born out of Buddhist aesthetics, a postwar authoritarian straitjacket, formative modernity, sublime cosmology, Cold War politics, etc. The book also situates Angkarn (อังคาร กัลยาณพงศ์) alongside his mid-century contemporaries—Allen Ginsberg and the great and enigmatic Paul Celan—and thus expands the ontology of Thai poetry into the global stream of linguistic modernism and poetic philosophy. Arnika's translations of Angkarn's verses are indisputably masterful." — Kong Rithdee, Independent Critic |
Reviews / Press
• Suradech Chotiudompant, “Teardrops of Time: Buddhist Aesthetics in the Poetry of Angkarn Kallayanapong by Arnika Fuhrmann,” South East Asia Research 29:4 (2021): 535-536.
• Podcast, Teardrops of Time: Buddhist Aesthetics in the Poetry of Angkarn Kallayanapong. Interview with Patrick Jory, “New Books in Southeast Asian Studies,” New Books Network, 2021.
• "Angkarn Kallayanapong Translations," The Allen Ginsberg Project," February 15, 2021.
• Kate Blackwood, "Book: Thai Poet Uses Buddhist Principles to 'Re-enchant' the Modern World," College of Arts and Science, February 4, 2021.
• Suradech Chotiudompant, “Teardrops of Time: Buddhist Aesthetics in the Poetry of Angkarn Kallayanapong by Arnika Fuhrmann,” South East Asia Research 29:4 (2021): 535-536.
• Podcast, Teardrops of Time: Buddhist Aesthetics in the Poetry of Angkarn Kallayanapong. Interview with Patrick Jory, “New Books in Southeast Asian Studies,” New Books Network, 2021.
• "Angkarn Kallayanapong Translations," The Allen Ginsberg Project," February 15, 2021.
• Kate Blackwood, "Book: Thai Poet Uses Buddhist Principles to 'Re-enchant' the Modern World," College of Arts and Science, February 4, 2021.
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