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View all search resultsTranscending age, literature and visual arts via Goenawan Mohamad's new anthology
Eminent Indonesian man of letters Goenawan Mohamad breaks down the boundaries between the written word and visual art, as he releases a new anthology of poems and an exhibition of prints
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Grotesque: "The Sang Ilmuwan" and "Orang Suci dan Burung-Burung" lithographs (JP/Tunggul Wirajuda) (JP/Tunggul Wirajuda)
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minent Indonesian man of letters Goenawan Mohamad breaks down the boundaries between the written word and visual art, as he releases a new anthology of poems and an exhibition of prints
The desert groaned: Babylon!
The procession went on
…Between history
And crops
Pestilence
And Hammurabi
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