Poetry and Terror (eBook)
302 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-7667-3 (ISBN)
A study at many levels of Scott's long poem Coming to Jakarta, a book-length response to a midlife crisis triggered in part by the author's initial inability to share his knowledge and horror about American involvement in the great Indonesian massacre of 1965. Interviews with Ng supply fuller information about the poem's discussions of: a) how this psychological trauma led to an explorations of violence in American society and then, after a key recognition, in the poet himself; b) the poems look at east-west relations through the lens of the yin-yang, spiritual-secular doubleness of the human condition; c) how the process of writing the poem led to the recovery of memories too threatening at first to be retained by his normal presentational self, and d) the mystery of right action, guided by the Bhagavad Gita and the maxim in the Gospel of Thomas that If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you.' Led by the interviews to greater self-awareness, Scott then analyses his poem as also an elegy, not just for the dead in Indonesia, but ';for the passing of the Sixties era, when so many of us imagined that a Movement might achieve major changes for a better America.' Subsequent chapters develop how human doubleness can lead to an inner tension between the needs of politics and the needs of poetry, and how some poetry can serve as a non-violent higher politics, contributing to the evolution of human culture and thus our ';second nature.'The book also reproduces a Scott prose essay, inspired by the poem, on the U.S. involvement in and support for the 1965 massacre. It then discusses how this essay was translated into Indonesian and officially banned by the Indonesian dictatorship, and how ultimately it and the poem helped inspire the ground-breaking films of Josh Oppenheimer that have led to the first official discussions in Indonesia of what happened in 1965.
Peter Dale Scott is a poet and author of many books including The American Deep State: Big Money, Big Oil, and the Attack on U.S. Democracy and Coming to Jakarta: A Poem About Terror, and he is co-founder of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at University of California, Berkeley.Freeman Ng is a former Google software engineer, an author, and an artist.
IntroductionI. INTERVIEWS WITH FREEMAN NGIntroduction: The Stream One Lives ByI.i–I.iii Wind-driven ghost of snowII.i–II.iii As if in a small planeII.iv–II.v The blind man’s prophecyAppendix to II.iv–v “shalt lose all companions”II.vi–II.vii We who desired to prepare the soilII.viii–II.ix The world like myselfII.x–II.xi Cave of windsII.xii–II.xiii IndonesiaII.xiv–II.xv This world that can only be dominatedII.xvi–II.xvii The ruthlessness that made possibleII.xviii–III.ii Part of the enemyIII.iii–III.v An ovenbird’s nestIII.vi–III.vii The brooding toils of energyIII.viii–III.ix Like the heroes of all good talesIII.x The stream one lives byIII.xi–III.xii The known and unknown roadwaysIII.xiii–III.xv Like giant doomed starsIII.xvi–III.xvii The cool hissing of the bulletsIV.i Beyond the mistsIV.ii-IV.iii The music changingIV.iv–IV.v Those baffled eyesIV.vi Truth and nonviolenceIV.vii–IV.ix Its propensity to distanceIV.x–IV.xii Portending delugeIV.xiii–IV.xiv If a sentence is left danglingIV.xv ¡Djakarta se acerca!IV.xvi–IV.xviii Whirr of low wingsV.i–V.ii The shadow playV.iii Let there be the courageII Trauma, Poetry, Politics, and the Mystery of HopeIII America’s Culpability in Indonesia, and Why We ShouldAcknowledge ItIV “Gaps” of Consciousness; or, How Writing Coming to JakartaLed Me to Deep PoliticsPreface to Chapter 5V The CIA and the Overthrow of Sukarno, 1965–1967Epilogue to Chapter 5 (2015)VI Catastrophe and Hope: Art and Better Politics
Reihe/Serie | AsiaWorld |
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Co-Autor | Freeman Ng |
Vorwort | Robert Hass |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
Schlagworte | Asian Studies • CIA in Indonesia • Coming to Jakarta • Creative Writing • deep politics • engaged poetry • Indonesia • Indonesian massacre • Nonviolence • Overton window • Poetry • poetry and liberation • repressed memories • therapeutic poetry • yin-yang doubleness |
ISBN-10 | 1-4985-7667-2 / 1498576672 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4985-7667-3 / 9781498576673 |
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