Before Dawn Poetry |
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| Author:
| Damono, Sapardi Djoko |
| Translator:
| McGlynn, John H. |
| ISBN: | 978-602-9144-18-5 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2012 |
| Publisher: | The Lontar Foundation
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $18.00 |
Book Description:
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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...
More 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.