Akin to Alluvium, Carried Away by the Tides De zieners He examines poetry’s greatest haters

He examines poetry’s greatest haters (beginning with Plato’s famous claim that an ideal city had no place for poets

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The crowned heads of Europe and the Pope marooned on an island fending for themselves

Akin to Alluvium, Carried Away by the Tides De zieners He examines poetry’s greatest hatersRatu R. Saraswati A year after the passing of my grandfather, in 2024, I traveled back home to Jakarta from the Netherlands. At times, the Dutch scenery is enchanting.. but there is other imagery, underlying and persistent, emerging more frequently. There are pieces of us, Indonesians, everywhere I look. As if our story has been carved out in every grain of its substances. A collection of parables, the book is part self reflection and historical