Poetry and Terror: Politics and Poetics in Coming to Jakarta

by Peter Dale Scott

Book Overview

A study at many levels of Scott's long poem Coming to Jakarta, a book-length response to a midlife crisis triggered in part by the author's initial inability to share his knowledge and horror about American involvement in the great Indonesian massacre of 1965. Interviews with Ng supply fuller information about the poem's discussions of: a) how this psychological trauma led to an explorations of violence in American society and then, after a key...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498576680
• ISBN13: 9781498576680
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"