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Will Harris

RENDANG

  • Menna Abu Zahraцитирует3 года назад
    ll always be grateful to Helena Nelson, my first editor, for having faith in my work when I didn’t.
  • Menna Abu Zahraцитирует3 года назад
    Granta for their support – especially to Eleanor Chandler for her owl-eyed suggestions.
  • Menna Abu Zahraцитирует3 года назад
    This book arose out of innumerable conversations and encounters. There are some people named in the poems (some names have been changed), but many others float lovingly in the background. I hope they know who they are and what they mean to me.
  • Menna Abu Zahraцитирует3 года назад
    These poems are spoken in memory of those who can’t hear them:
    Tjandra Sari, aka Mak (1931–2018)
    Swadaya Sitiabudi (1923–1979)
    John P. Harris (1923–2003)
    Emy van der Spek (1929–2002)
  • Menna Abu Zahraцитирует3 года назад
    and I asked if everything was OK. Yes,
    everything’s OK, you said, suddenly embarrassed, but wait,
    why am I telling you this
  • Menna Abu Zahraцитирует3 года назад
    and need a voice capacious enough to be both me and not-me,
  • Menna Abu Zahraцитирует3 года назад
    I reject the possibility of narrating any life other than my own
  • Menna Abu Zahraцитирует3 года назад
    I feel it still. But not with
    guilt. Reverberating in
    me. My rickety city.
  • Menna Abu Zahraцитирует3 года назад
    My freight train. My empty din.
  • Menna Abu Zahraцитирует3 года назад
    No jokes today please.
    See me slumped against the door.
    Up to my knees.
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