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In a writing career that has spanned for more than thirty years, Afrizal Malna has published several collections of poetry and has seen his poems translated into different languages. He is concerned with the question of language and bodily engagement within public and private spaces. It is through the appearance of everyday objects that his poems emerge as a repository of the cultural meaning of space and objects in modern Indonesia. His poems maintain a delicate balance of style consistency and theme variation. Malna’s poems in this anthology brilliantly trace the quickly-changing urban trajectory of present-day Indonesia.