Before Dawn
By:Sapardi Djoko Damono
Published on 2013-01-01 by
Sapardi Djoko Damono, one of Indonesia's most productive and popular poets first began writing poetry as a high school student in the mid- 1950s. Before Dawn includes poems written by the author over a forty year time span, from 1961 to 2001. Arranged as they are in chronological order, the poems in Before Dawn together form a kind of poetic autobiography. In |One Night,| written in 1964, the author is a young Muslim boy crying outside the church door as his classmates celebrate Christmas. In the 1967 poem, |For my Wife,| he is a young husband telling his wife that |the earth holds a spray of flowers, just for you.| In the 1981 poem, |In the Hands of Children,| he is now a doting father marveling that |in the hands of children, paper becomes Sinbad's ship.| Jump to the 1989 poem, |At the Restaurant,| and he is now middle aged and wondering about the constancy of relationships - whether two people can ever truly share an eternal love. And finally, in the 2001 title poem, |Before Dawn,| the poet is a much older man, whose concerns are mental and physical frailty and, of course, death.
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