Document Shredding Museum
Document Shredding Museum by Afrizal Malna, published by Reading Sideways Press in 2019, presents a collection of poetry that explores various histories and their impact on contemporary life. This edition, written in English and spanning 114 pages, delves into themes ranging from personal relationships to broader issues of environmental and semantic destruction, all while reflecting on the complexities of language and experience.
Readers will find that the poems in Document Shredding Museum engage with a diverse array of subjects, including classical Javanese myth and the effects of colonial and postcolonial exploitation. Afrizal Malna’s work dismantles and reassembles the remnants of language, inviting contemplation on how poetry can emerge from chaos. The collection is marked by a blend of darkness, humor, and insightful commentary on the present, making it a thought-provoking addition to the realm of contemporary poetry.
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The poems that comprise Indonesian poet, artist, and playwright Afrizal Malna’s 2013 collection Document Shredding Museum address a variety of histories and the present moments they both inform and deform. From intimate encounters between lovers and friends to mass scale environmental and semantic destruction, from classical Javanese myth to colonial and postcolonial corporate pillaging of human and natural resources, these poems dismantle and reassemble the debris of language, asking how we can make poetry from such ruins. Drawing on a wide array of modes and moods, and colored always by Afrizal’s characteristic complex of darkness, humor, and insight into the conditions of the present, Document Shredding Museum troubles the boundaries between information and experience, emotion and thought.
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