| Before Dawn: Poetry Contributor(s): Damono, Sapardi Djoko (Author), McGlynn, John H. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 6029144189 ISBN-13: 9786029144185 Publisher: Lontar Foundation OUR PRICE: $19.80 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2012 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Asian - General - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - General |
| Dewey: 899.221 |
| LCCN: 2021347120 |
| Physical Information: 0.43" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.54 lbs) 186 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southeast Asian - Cultural Region - Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Before Dawn is a poetry collection written by Sapardi Djoko Damono: with contents written from 1961 to 2001, portraying the poet at different stages of life. Opened by "One Night", written in 1964 when he was a young Moslem boy crying outside a church door as his classmates celebrated Christmas, the book ends with "Before Dawn", written in 2001 when he was much older, pondering about frailty and mortality. Through his poems--the meaning, the sounds, the rhythm--Sapardi has proven himself capable of depicting the imaginative awareness of experience. |
Contributor Bio(s): Damono, Sapardi Djoko: - Sapardi Djoko Damono has published more than fifteen poetry anthologies, three volumes of short stories, and a score of nonfiction titles. He has also translated dozens of literary works.McGlynn, John H.: - John H. McGlynn has translated several dozen publications under his own name, and through the Lontar Foundation, which he co-founded in 1987, has ushered into print close to two hundred books on Indonesian language, literature, and culture. He is the Indonesian country editor for MĀNOA, a literary journal published by the University of Hawai'i Press; the senior editor for I-Lit, an on-line journal focusing on Indonesian literature in translation; a contributing editor to Words Without Borders and Warscapes, U.S. based literary journals; and an editor advisor for Jurnal Sastra, an Indonesian-language on-line journal. He is also a frequent speaker at seminars both in Indonesia and abroad. |