Coming to Jakarta (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Peter Dale Scott
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Time of Work: Primarily the 1960’s, with flashbacks to the three previous decades
- Setting: New England, Northern California, Java, India, and Poland
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Language or languages, 1960’s, Social issues, Assassination, Canada or Canadians, Conspiracies or conspirators, Massacres
- Locales: California, New England, Poland, India, Java
Centered on the cover of Coming to Jakarta is a clear oblong photograph of a tranquil lake, probably Lake Massawippi, near the point at which Canada meets Vermont. It was in this area that Peter Dale Scott, born in Montreal, spent his childhood summers. This photograph is superimposed upon three other pictures, so shadowy, dark, and indistinct as to be barely perceptible. These pictures are of uniformed soldiers, most of them Southeast Asians. In a sense, the collage of which this cover is made provides the essence of what Scott writes about in his chilling poem. The levels on...
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