Goenawan Mohamad

Puffy face. Heavy eyebrows. Bushy moustache. Black turban inscribed with sacred words in Arabic calligraphy.…

“…a girdle of emeralds on the equator” – Multatuli (1820-1887) A metaphor may beguile, even…

At the calendar’s last page lies our primary question: is hope ever possible? Each December…

Goenawan Mohamad’s opening speech at the World Poetry Festival, Kuala Lumpur, 17 August 2004 ****…

“Upon the earth, beneath the sky, among mortals, before the divinities…” She tells herself she…