Salvage: Poems

Synopsis

Merapi -- What Is Believed Of Paradise -- Though We've No Chance Of Escape, Encore -- Ishtar In Suburbia -- For Khalil, First Responder, Whose Name Means Friend -- The American Dream Writes To Orpheus -- Lazarus Reconsiders His Awakening -- Elegy For The Hellfire -- Orpheus Is Mugged In The City Of Brotherly Love -- Garden State -- After Hurricane Sandy -- The Men Who Turned Into Air -- Nom De Guerre -- Anthem -- Jesus Is Tested In The Downtown Eastside -- Small Stubborn Gods -- How To Watch The Act Of Killing -- Self-portrait As One Day On My Home Island Of Bali -- Suppose You Were A Komodo Dragon -- Elegy For Red: A Zuihitsu -- Sixteen -- Winter Country -- Promised Land: Sonnets For My Mother -- Self-portrait As The Last Will Of Lot's Wife -- Remission -- Pulses -- Portrait Of My Father As A Pianist -- Poem For Prisoner #46664 -- Howl In Our Hands -- Arboretum -- After Coltrane -- Siege: In Respo To The Man Who Asked Me, Where Is The Courage In Your Poetry? -- Aubade -- Res Domestica -- The Argument -- Time Stops On Mount Batur -- Tabuh Rah -- From A Talisman's Point Of View -- Breach -- Tonight We Drink Whiskey & Dive -- Salvage -- Epilogue. Cynthia Dewi Oka.