Poetry and terror : politics and poetics in coming to Jakarta /: politics and poetics in coming to Jakarta. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Peter Dale Scott with Freeman Ng ; foreword by Robert Hass.
• Authors: Scott, Peter Dale; Ng, Freeman
• Contents: Introduction ; ; ; I. INTERVIEWS WITH FREEMAN NG ; ; Introduction: The Stream One Lives By ; ; I.i–I.iii Wind-driven ghost of snow ; ; II.i–II.iii As if in a small plane ; ; II.iv–II.v The blind man’s prophecy ; ; Appendix to II.iv–v “shalt lose all companions” ; ; II.vi–II.vii We who desired to prepare the soil ; ; II.viii–II.ix The world like myself ; ; II.x–II.xi Cave of winds ; ; II.xii–II.xiii Indonesia ; ; II.xiv–II.xv This world that can only be dominated ; ; II.xvi–II.xvii The ruthlessness that made possible ; ; II.xviii–III.ii Part of the enemy ; ; III.iii–III.v An ovenbird’s nest ; ; III.vi–III.vii The brooding toils of energy ; ; III.viii–III.ix Like the heroes of all good tales ; ; III.x The stream one lives by ; ; III.xi–III.xii The known and unknown roadways ; ; III.xiii–III.xv Like giant doomed stars ; ; III.xvi–III.xvii The cool hissing of the bullets ; ; IV.i Beyond the mists ; ; IV.ii-IV.iii The music changing ; ; IV.iv–IV.v Those baffled eyes ; ; IV.vi Truth and nonviolence ; ; IV.vii–IV.ix Its propensity to distance ; ; IV.x–IV.xii Portending deluge ; ; IV.xiii–IV.xiv If a sentence is left dangling ; ; IV.xv ¡Djakarta se acerca! ; ; IV.xvi–IV.xviii Whirr of low wings ; ; V.i–V.ii The shadow play ; ; V.iii Let there be the courage ; ; ; II Trauma, Poetry, Politics, and the Mystery of Hope ; ; ; III America’s Culpability in Indonesia, and Why We Should ; ; Acknowledge It ; ; ; IV “Gaps” of Consciousness; or, How Writing Coming to Jakarta ; ; Led Me to Deep Politics ; ; Preface to Chapter 5 ; ; ; V The CIA and the Overthrow of Sukarno, 1965–1967 ; ; Epilogue to Chapter 5 (2015) ; ; ; VI Catastrophe and Hope: Art and Better Politics
• Publisher Details: Lanham : Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 811.6; Language Arts & Disciplines: Composition & Creative Writing; Political Science: World / Asian; Indonesia -- History -- Coup d'état, 1965
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781498576673
• Related ISBNs: 9781498576666
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