RENDANG (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
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- Synopsis
- Using long poems, ekphrasis, and ruptured forms, RENDANG is a startling new take on the self, and how an identity is constructed. Drawing on his Anglo-Indonesian heritage, Will Harris shows us new ways to think about the contradictions of identity and cultural memory. He creates companions that speak to us in multiple languages. They deftly ask us to consider how and what we look at, as well as what we don't look at and why. It is intellectual and accessible, moving and experimental, and combines a linguistic innovation with a deep emotional rooting.Mother CountryThe shades open for landing, I see the pandan-leafed interior expandingtowards the edge of a relievedhorizon. Down alongthe banks of the Ciliwung are slums I had forgotten, the river like a loosely sutured wound. As we begin our descent into the black smog of an emergingpower, I make out the tin shacks, the stalls selling juices, the red-tiled colonial barracks, the new mall.It is raining profusely.After years of her urgingme to go, me holding back,I have no more excuses.
- Copyright:
- 2020
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 80 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780819579904
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780819579898
- Publisher:
- Wesleyan University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 09/01/23
- Copyrighted By:
- Will Harris
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Poetry, Literature and Fiction, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender, Social Studies
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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