Poetry books from Indonesia
Recommended poetry books (2)
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If you are into poetry here are some poetry books from Indonesia for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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Indigenous Species by Khairani Barokka EN
Description:
A young girl is abducted and smuggled aboard a boat bound upstream on an Indonesian river, through a landscape scarred by ecological destruction and historical greed. As her captors take her ever deeper into the jungle, her uncertain fate is compounded by the sense of her environment as a place of violence, destruction and jeopardy. But it is also a place from which she herself is indigenous, and if she can root herself back into its landscape and languages, she may yet save herself.
Khairani Barokka addresses issues of pollution, consumerism, and habitat destruction with a poet's sen... continue