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portada coming to jakarta: a poem about terror
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Year
1989
Language
English
Pages
164
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
20.3 x 13.7 x 1.1 cm
Weight
0.19 kg.
ISBN
0811210952
ISBN13
9780811210959
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coming to jakarta: a poem about terror

Peter Dale Scott (Author) · New Directions Publishing Corporation · Paperback

coming to jakarta: a poem about terror - Scott, Peter Dale

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Synopsis "coming to jakarta: a poem about terror"

A devastating revelation of violence, exploitation, and corrupt politics, Coming to Jakarta derives its title from the role played by the CIA, banks, and oil companies in the 1965 slaughter of more than half a million Indonesians. A former Canadian diplomat and now a scholar at the University of California, Peter Dale Scott has said that the poem is triggered by what we know of the bloody Indonesian massacre... However it is not so much a narrative of exotic foreign murder as one person's account of what it is like to live in the 20th century, possessing enough access to information and power to feel guilty about global human oppression, but not enough to deal with it. The usual result is a kind of daily schizophrenia by which we desensitize ourselves to our own responses to what we read in the newspapers. The psychic self-alienation which ensues makes integrative poetry difficult but necessary. With a brilliant use of collage, placing the political against the personal--childhood acquaintances are among the darkly powerful figures--Scott works in the tradition of Pound's Cantos, but his substance is completely his own.

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