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S'està carregant… A Tinderbox in Three Actsde Cynthia Dewi Oka
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Ressenya escrita per a Crítics Matiners de LibraryThing . Its a good and powerful book but a bit hard to understand . Yo many metaphors. I love poetry and this one its a bit different. Ressenya escrita per a Crítics Matiners de LibraryThing . A Tinderbox in Three Acts is a tender, moving, timely work. Some gems: “The warehouses are ashes. While my bothers / are out patrolling, bats peel themselves from the insides of the earth.” (p. 71) and “I saw a pit I did not mean / to enter language for a country / that wasn’t even there” (p. 47) The poetic imagery is sublime throughout, and this ‘tinderbox in three acts’ tells the often-neglected story of the 1965 genocide in Indonesia. It highlights the human cost without being overtly graphic, and the subject matter is handled expertly. This poetry collection is defiant and proud – spoken from a place of great grief and sorrow, about a decades-deep national trauma. This book is unafraid to speak about the damages of imperialism and the atrocities humankind can be capable of, but the language itself maintains a poetic, dark, and lovely mystique throughout. 5 stars out of 5. Ressenya escrita per a Crítics Matiners de LibraryThing . A very unique and powerful read. This book is a beautiful peace of art that so creatively gives voice to those who didnt. I had never heard of these horrific events in indonesia so this was a very infomative read. It took me a moment to get used to the writing style but once I got into the swing of this book it was very worth it!! The beautiful cover also makes it a wonderful book to display. Ressenya escrita per a Crítics Matiners de LibraryThing . "My resistance to narrative clarity has to do with failure to accept coherence as the best thing we have to offer each other. Coherence is linear or circular. It mitigates risk" (51). This footnote, in her book of poems about the Indonesian genocide of 1965, hints at the level of difficulty you might find in reading Oka's work. Narrative clarity is indeed underemphasized here in favor of highly metaphorical language that repeats and echoes so that what baffles in one poem slowly begins to make sense as it appears in a second, third, or fourth. Despite Oka's suspicion of linearity, I recommend reading the book from the first page: the author's lyrical Dedication and Aracelis Girmay's Foreword do a lot to explain the book's context and some of its metaphors. Oka's language may feel stilted at first, but the poems teach you to read them, to hear their rhythms, so eventually you'll find the power here and the heartbreak and anger. All of which is to say, this is a difficult but rewarding book. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
Selected by Aracelis Girmay, A Tinderbox in Three Acts is at once elegy and exegesis, fact and invention. In her fourth poetry collection, Cynthia Dewi Oka performs a lyric accounting of the anti-Communist genocide of 1965, which, led by the Indonesian military and with American assistance, erased and devastated millions of lives in Indonesia. Under the New Order dictatorship that ruled by terror for over three decades in the aftermath, perpetrators of the killings were celebrated as national heroes while survivors were systemically silenced. Drawing on US state documents that were only declassified in recent years, Oka gives form and voice to the ghosts that continue to haunt subsequent generations despite decades of state-produced amnesia and disinformation. In service of recovering what must not be remembered, A Tinderbox in Three Acts repurposes the sanitized lexicon of official discourse, imagines an emotional syntax for the unthinkable, and employs synesthetic modes of perception to convey that which exceeds language. Here, the boundary between singular and collective consciousness is blurred. Here, history as an artifact of the powerful is trumped by the halting memory of the people whom power sought to destroy. Where memory fails, here is poetry to honor the dishonored, the betrayed, the lost and still-awaited. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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