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- Herausgeber: The Emma Press
- Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
- Serie: The Emma Press Poetry Pamphlets
- Sprache: Englisch
A mind-blowing collection of poems about love, life, and a long-overdue introduction to the unique worldview of Ikhda Ayuning Maharsi. Ikhda captures the intensity and wildness of love, sex, motherhood and family ties through her heady and sensual poems and character sketches. She flexes and chivvies the English language into hitherto undreamt-of places, dipping occasionally into French and Italian, and presents it all back to the reader in compelling, undeniably truthful nuggets, with exquisite tenderness and humanity. Ikhda Ayuning Maharsi has worked in television, advertising and as a scriptwriter on a sitcom in Indonesia. She performed her poetry for the first time in 2011, at Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris. She now lives in Naples, where she is enjoying her new role as mother to her little boy Corentin.
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Ikhda, by Ikhda
Author’s Note
This collection of poetry is intended to free the prejudices of every reader. It was born and compiled with the themes of love, life and whatever – spontaneous emotions are behind it. I believe that poetry is the angel that saves me from heavy scepticism in the life drama. Poetry can be humble, honest, undeniable, and friendly. But it can also be wild, angry, aggressive, and not easily absorbed. It really doesn’t matter that we know poetry isn’t a conclusion, but a process for tolerating any incident. Life’s incidents.
Poetry is a healing drug, or meditation. These poems are not just anti-cliché, but zen and anti-zen. They are a recapitulation of the many human responses to everything that happens in society. My deep adoration of multiculturalism can be read in some of my poems which mention space, proximity, and zone.
Happy reading!
Ikhda Ayuning Maharsi
March 2014
Ikhda, by Ikhda
by Ikhda Ayuning Maharsi
The Emma Press
Dedication
Vincent, thank you for showing me the different skies.
Corentin, son, you are inside my blood cells.
Mama, thank you for the wings.
Papa, just don’t stop dancing.
‘Humanism’ in fact, could be defined by its penchant for waste, that is, human waste. – from History of Shit, by Dominique Laporte
Copyright
First published in Great Britain in 2014by the Emma Press Ltd
Poems copyright © Ikhda Ayuning Maharsi 2014Introduction copyright © Rachel Piercey 2014
All rights reserved.
The right of Ikhda Ayuning Maharsi to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
eISBN 978-1-910139-09-7
Print ISBN 978-0-9574596-6-3
A CIP catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library.
theemmapress.com
Introduction
In the first poem of the pamphlet, Ikhda describes ‘the space of absurdity/ a familiar place’ where the female protagonist collects ‘one hundred flowers’. This is a fitting introduction to the playful, brightly-coloured and seductive world of Ikhda’s poems, where her frank enjoyment of the surreal is not a device but an all-suffusing, triumphant worldview.
The poems celebrate the body, particularly the female body, and she exuberantly invokes its animal functions: the ‘you’ of ‘Anatomy’ is exhorted to ‘pump my breast/ for your kid’ and ‘drink my spit’; in ‘Lys’, the speaker tells us ‘I have had intercourse so many times with my past’, and in the end her sensual pleasures ensure a kind of immortality.
Other people are deftly and humanely conjured. The emotional man walking the roads in ‘Atlas in Ubud
