Document Shredding Museum

By: Afrizal Malna, Daniel Owen (Translator)

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Paperback | 1 December 2019

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The poems that comprise Indonesian poet, artist, and playwright Afrizal Malna's 2013 collection Document Shredding Museum address a variety of histories and the present moments they both inform and deform. From intimate encounters between lovers and friends to mass scale environmental and semantic destruction, from classical Javanese myth to colonial and postcolonial corporate pillaging of human and natural resources, these poems dismantle and reassemble the debris of language, asking how we can make poetry from such ruins. Drawing on a wide array of modes and moods, and colored always by Afrizal's characteristic complex of darkness, humor, and insight into the conditions of the present, Document Shredding Museum troubles the boundaries between information and experience, emotion and thought.

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"Afrizal Maln's refined, mature, and elusive lyric accumulates sentences rife withstrange recursions and logical and metaphorical paradoxes. It sequences "poetic" - because spare - objects in order to at least try coming to terms with Indonesian history, both colonial and postcolonial ... Daniel Owen, writing in an elegant, reserved English, has offered us a beautiful thing of clear obscurity, and that is already a great achievement." Eugene Ostashevsky

"Finally indonesian poetry translated into english by a real poet. daniel owen pays as much attention to the poetry of afrizal as he does to his translation, reimagining and bridging the tingles in the spine of the originals into his own version of afrizalian anxieties and madness." Mikael Johani

"This is poetry unlike any other poetry you have probably ever read. Afrizal Malna works in the empty area created by language, the body and existentialist wounds. Come in if you don't like grammar, logic, or dishonest images of human integration. Explore his writing as 'a laboratory of darkness' and ask yourself, as he does, 'can my eyes see into me?' The answer may surprise you." Harry Aveling

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