“Not since Robert Duncan’s Ground Work and before that William Carlos Williams’ Paterson has New Directions published a long poem as important as Coming to Jakarta.”
— James Laughlin
“A brilliant and devastating book. An autobiography that cat’s-cradles meticulously into world politics….This is a rare difficult book that uses precise poetry to evoke a map of the world where childhood lyric rubs shoulders terribly with the dark gods of power.”
— Michael Ondaatje
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