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There Are Tears In Things : Collected Poems And Prose (2001-2016)

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What a pleasure to see Laksmi Pamuritjake proem and prose texts in one generous volume that bears witness to her versatility and dexterity in both thos genres long before her name became internationally known for her splendid first novel. Her multivocal stories intertwine with the lush, layered textans of art and music and her elliptical, deft poems observe with a clear eye the cityscapes of our own restless lives, whether in Jakarta or London, New York or Berlin Aamer Hussein, author of Another Gulmohar Teer The Cloud Messenger, Insommrnrn"It is clear from her beautiful poetry and prose that Laksmi l'amuntjak knows the human heart has many chambers (who cares what doctors think!) and that love, desire and longing is never so easy and simple ass to occupy only one room in the hotel of our hearts. This staggering collection is both delicate and dangerous forceful and faultless. She draws back the curtains on the aching complexities of vulnerability: all you have to do is enter"-Sean M. Whelan, author of Tatoomg the Surface of the MoonrnrnTaksmi Pamuntjak's poems start in the thinking mind. intelligently constructed and seemingly softly spoken. But they roam wildly into everything that surrounds it. both by way of the material, the bodily, the sensuous and along the transformative power of the imagination. Her verse brings these two distinct modes of being together as if they are not separate at all. In so doing her poetry is one where the personal, the political and the mystical are one. As they should be Joost Baars. poet essayist, former manager of Perdu Poetry Theater in Amsterdamrnrn"Pamuntjak moves through cities and bodies and imprints and sends us these pages like postcards to cherish: on one side, poems and musings: on the other, vignettes and visuals. So we travel with her through her eyes, seeing and savoring each experience nenewed by every fresh taste or tableau-Sharanya Manivannan, author of The High Priestess Never MarriesrnrnAesthetically intense and powerfully sensual the poetry is attuned, meticulous, deft, and the reader is transfigured by a lea of silences -Books of the Year, 2005, The Herald UK, for Ellipsisrnrnhard not to get caught up in the (poems) sheerrnrnenergy and celebration of language, or as Pamuntjakrnrnwrites, a world of the word." -The Straits Timesrnrn(Singapore) for Ellisrnrnhard edged and heartfelt, her translations of desire may be measurest in pure delight-Christopher Merei directe of the International Writing Program University of fowa, and author of Brilliant Water Pos Thing of the Hulden God. Only the Nints Remum for The Anagram Laksmi Pamuntjak is a bilingual Indonesian novelist, poet, short story writer, essayist, journalist, and award winning food writer.rnrnAmba/The Question of Red, her bestrnrnselling first novel, won Germany's LiBeraturpreis 2016 and was named #1 on Germany's Weltempfaenger list of the best works of fiction from the Global South translated into German. The novel has been translated into several languages.rnrnPamuntjak, who co-founded Aksara Bookstore in Jakarta, was selected by an international panel headed by Sir Simon Armitage as the Indonesian representative for Poetry Parnassus at the 2012 London Olympics. Her best selling second novel, Aruna and Her Palate, will be published in the US and Germany in 2017.rnrnShe writes opinion articles for the Guardian and divides her time between Berlin and Jakarta."

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B00682

811 LAK t

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811 LAK t

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PT. Gramedia Pustaka Utama : Jakarta., 2016

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xxi+248 hlm. ; ilus. ; 20 cm

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English

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978-602-03-3464-6

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811

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