Before Dawn: Poetry

by Sapardi Djoko Damono

Book Overview

Sapardi Djoko Damono, one of Indonesia's most productive and popular poets first began writing poetry as a high school student in the mid- 1950s. Before Dawn includes poems written by the author over a forty year time span, from 1961 to 2001. Arranged as they are in chronological order, the poems in Before Dawn together form a kind of poetic autobiography.

In "One Night," written in 1964, the author is a young Muslim boy crying outside the church...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 6029144189
• ISBN13: 9786029144185
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Lontar Foundation
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"