What's Left & Other Poems

Taufik Ikram Jamil

• 30 december 2015
• 9786029144987

Samenvatting:

Taufik Ikram Jamil's poetry is filled with references to the geography, history and classic Malay literature. With their Malay flavour and diction, his poems convey a tension between the past and present, between the colloquial and the literary, and between regionalism and nationalism. The poet bequeaths the wealth of the Malay language.



Taufik Ikram Jamil’s poetry is filled with references to the geography, history and classic Malay literature. With their Malay flavor and diction, his poems convey a tension between the past and present, between the colloquial and the literary, and between regionalism and nationalism. The poet bequeaths the wealth of the Malay language.