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."
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."
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.
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Introduction I. INTERVIEWS WITH FREEMAN NG Introduction: The Stream One Lives By I.i I.iii Wind driven ghost of snow II.i II.iii As if in a small plane II.iv II.v The blind man's prophecy Appendix to II.iv v "shalt lose all companions" II.vi II.vii We who desired to prepare the soil II.viii II.ix The world like myself II.x II.xi Cave of winds II.xii II.xiii Indonesia II.xiv II.xv This world that can only be dominated II.xvi II.xvii The ruthlessness that made possible II.xviii III.ii Part of the enemy III.iii III.v An ovenbird's nest III.vi III.vii The brooding toils of energy III.viii III.ix Like the heroes of all good tales III.x The stream one lives by III.xi III.xii The known and unknown roadways III.xiii III.xv Like giant doomed stars III.xvi III.xvii The cool hissing of the bullets IV.i Beyond the mists IV.ii IV.iii The music changing IV.iv IV.v Those baffled eyes IV.vi Truth and nonviolence IV.vii IV.ix Its propensity to distance IV.x IV.xii Portending deluge IV.xiii IV.xiv If a sentence is left dangling IV.xv ¡Djakarta se acerca! IV.xvi IV.xviii Whirr of low wings V.i V.ii The shadow play V.iii Let there be the courage II Trauma, Poetry, Politics, and the Mystery of Hope III America's Culpability in Indonesia, and Why We Should Acknowledge It IV "Gaps" of Consciousness; or, How Writing Coming to Jakarta Led Me to Deep Politics Preface to Chapter 5 V The CIA and the Overthrow of Sukarno, 1965 1967 Epilogue to Chapter 5 (2015) VI Catastrophe and Hope: Art and Better Politics
Introduction I. INTERVIEWS WITH FREEMAN NG Introduction: The Stream One Lives By I.i I.iii Wind driven ghost of snow II.i II.iii As if in a small plane II.iv II.v The blind man's prophecy Appendix to II.iv v "shalt lose all companions" II.vi II.vii We who desired to prepare the soil II.viii II.ix The world like myself II.x II.xi Cave of winds II.xii II.xiii Indonesia II.xiv II.xv This world that can only be dominated II.xvi II.xvii The ruthlessness that made possible II.xviii III.ii Part of the enemy III.iii III.v An ovenbird's nest III.vi III.vii The brooding toils of energy III.viii III.ix Like the heroes of all good tales III.x The stream one lives by III.xi III.xii The known and unknown roadways III.xiii III.xv Like giant doomed stars III.xvi III.xvii The cool hissing of the bullets IV.i Beyond the mists IV.ii IV.iii The music changing IV.iv IV.v Those baffled eyes IV.vi Truth and nonviolence IV.vii IV.ix Its propensity to distance IV.x IV.xii Portending deluge IV.xiii IV.xiv If a sentence is left dangling IV.xv ¡Djakarta se acerca! IV.xvi IV.xviii Whirr of low wings V.i V.ii The shadow play V.iii Let there be the courage II Trauma, Poetry, Politics, and the Mystery of Hope III America's Culpability in Indonesia, and Why We Should Acknowledge It IV "Gaps" of Consciousness; or, How Writing Coming to Jakarta Led Me to Deep Politics Preface to Chapter 5 V The CIA and the Overthrow of Sukarno, 1965 1967 Epilogue to Chapter 5 (2015) VI Catastrophe and Hope: Art and Better Politics
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