Indigenous Species by Khairani Barokka W S Merwin the poems express the full

the poems express the full range of Stratanovsky’s verse

the realm of the dead and the lives of others: cosmonauts swim in distant space

needles thread scissors thimble

after Beowulf

Indigenous Species by Khairani Barokka W S Merwin the poems express the fullA young girl is abducted and smuggled aboard a boat bound upstream on an Indonesian river, through a landscape scarred by ecological destruction and historical greed. As her captors take her ever deeper into the jungle, her uncertain fate is compounded by the sense of her environment as a place of violence, destruction and jeopardy. But it is also a place from which she herself is indigenous, and if she can root herself back into its landscape and