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Ellipsis: Poems and Prose-Poems by Laksmi Pamuntjak

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Tahun penerbitan:

Pena Gaia Klasik (2005), Equinox (2006)

2005 (Pena Gaia Klasik), 2006 (Equinox)

Ellipsis: Poems and Prose-Poems by Laksmi Pamuntjak

Sinopsis

Ellipsis is Laksmi’s debut poetry collection. It appeared in the 2005 Herald UK Books of the Year list, recommended by the author Suhayl Saadi.

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Ellipsis: Poems and Prose-Poems by Laksmi Pamuntjak

"  ... Aesthetically intense and powerfully sensual ... the poetry is attuned, meticulous, deft, and the reader is transfigured by a 'lea of silences.' - Books of the Year 2005, The Herald UK

 

"  ... hard not to get caught up in the (poems') sheer energy and celebration of language, or as Pamuntjak writes, 'a world of the word.'" - The Straits Times (Singapore)

 

"Lyrical and elegiac ... moves you with the speed of a heartache." - Felix Cheong, author of Broken by the Rain: Poems, I Watch the Stars Go Out

 

"'  ... in the poet’s own words, 'giddy, glowing, red hot.'" - Cyril Wong, author of Tilting our Plates to Catch the Light, The Dictator’s Eyebrow, Excess Baggage and Claim, Unmarked Treasure

 

"  ... contains some of the freshest, most sensual poems I have ever read ...the writing is diamond-cut yet visceral, suffused with intellect yet shamanic ..." - Suhayl Saadi, author of Psychoraag, Joseph’s Box, The White Cliffs, The Burning Mirror

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