Poetry and Terror: Politics and Poetics in Coming to Jakarta

by Peter Dale Scott

Book Overview

The book explores, in interview format, issues raised but not fully explored by Scott's poem Coming to Jakarta on the 1965 Indonesian massacre. In addition, Scott reflects on ways that poetry can serve as a non-violent higher politics, contributing to the evolution of human culture and thus our "second nature."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498576680
• ISBN13: 9781498576680
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"