I‘m not a book collector. I‘ve never truly appreciated just how annoying this is. Think I‘ve got it now though...
**WHAT am I supposed to do with this???! 😑
I‘m not a book collector. I‘ve never truly appreciated just how annoying this is. Think I‘ve got it now though...
**WHAT am I supposed to do with this???! 😑
One of queer Indonesian poet Norman Erikson Pasaribu‘s #imaginaryplaces, somewhere to escape to. #wanderingjune
The full poem is in PDF form at https://europalia.eu/files/pdf/Norman-Erikson-Pasaribu-EN.pdf
Poetry in translation from #Indonesia. Sad, funny, tragic and hopeful; living a lie, not living a lie, mythology, faith, perhaps, pop songs, loss, dreams of a better life - and life beyond alien invasion. Pick!
The translator‘s note‘s really interesting - she talks about translating a collection about queerness from a language where there are no gendered pronouns into English where we tend to talk in binaries.
The next book in my Tilted Axis Press subscription arrived the other day - poems from queer Indonesian poet Norman Erikson Pasaribu.
A few from the colkection are reproduced in Asymptote Journal: https://www.asymptotejournal.com/poetry/norman-erikson-pasaribu-sergius-seeks-ba...