Beyond the Archipelago: Selected Poems

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A collections of 70 poems from one of Malaya's leading poets, that depict longing, loneliness, modernization, and insights in Malaysian culture.

ISBN-13:	9780896801813
Publisher:	Ohio University Press
Publication date:	04/01/1995
Series:	Ohio RIS Southeast Asia Series , #93
Edition description:	1
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.60(d)

	Acknowledgments	ix
	If or and then	1
	No more the world	3
	For kasturi	5
	Distance	9
	World of debate	11
	A heap of words	13
	This is no place for telling the truth	15
	Welcome home, juita	17
	All along the way	21
	In a village	23
	Rain	25
	Teller of tales	27
	Not mine	29
	Night rain	31
	On a journey	33
	Puppeteer ii	37
	Puppeteer iii	39
	Shadow play i	41
	The forest's last day	43
	Seeds	47
	Islanders	49
	A story from guam	51
	Self-portrait	57
	England in the spring	61
	Prisoners of the past	65
	Among vegetables	67
	Temporary	73
	Politician	75
	The slant of ways	77
	Travelling far	79
	Poems from Sejarah Melayu	81
	Prologue	83
	Chapter two	89
	Chapter seven (i)	97
	Chapter nine (i)	101
	Chapter ten	107
	Chapter twelve	113
	Chapter fifteen	117
	Chapter sixteen	121
	Chapter twenty-two	125
	Chapter thirty	127
	Chapter thirty-two (ii)	135
	Chapter thirty-four	143
	This too is my world	147
	Bay	149
	Bed	151
	Standing in oxford street	153
	The folkhealer	155
	The boat builder	157
	Enggang tako	159
	My companions	161
	This too is my earth	163
	From the side of the self	167
	To the centre	169
	No eternity	171
	Transcience	173
	Farmers	175
	Rome	177
	Nothing is ever ended	179
	The sea's always here	181
	Firenze	183
	Sailor	187
	Point of the blade	189
	The violin player	191
	Helsingor	193
	The travel journal of Si Tenggang II	195
	Si tenggang's homecoming	197
	Story	203
	Return	205
	How much	215
	History	219
	Promises	221
	Nocturne	223
	Poems of the outsider	225
	Decoud	227
	King lear	231
	At the harbour	233
	Undergraduate	235
	At chairil's grave	239
	Words	243

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