Interrogation Records book

Jeddie Sophronius is the author of the poetry collections site_link Interrogation Records Poems site_link Happy Poems and Other Lies Love Sambal The Word Works 2024 and the chapbook Blood Letting a runner up for Quarterly Wests 2022 Chapbook Contest. Interrogation recordsfinder license A Chinese Indonesian writer from Jakarta they received their MFA from the University of Virginia where they currently serve as a lecturer in English The recipient of the 2023 Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize their poems have appeared in The Cincinnati Review The Iowa Review Prairie Schooner and elsewhere Read of their work at nakedcentaur. Interrogation recordsfinder login comThey currently live and teach in Charlottesville VA They divide their time between Indonesia and the United States Jeddie Sophronius is the author of the poetry collections site_link Interrogation Records Poems site_link Happy Poems and Other Lies Love Sambal The Word Works 2024 and the chapbook Blood Letting a runner up for Quarterly West s 2022 Chapbook Contest. Interrogation Records booking A Chinese Indonesian writer from Jakarta they received their MFA from the University of Virginia where they currently serve as a lecturer in English The recipient of the 2023 Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize their poems have appeared in The Cincinnati Review The Iowa Review Prairie Schooner and elsewhere Read of their work at nakedcentaur. Interrogation recordsha comThey currently live and teach in Charlottesville VA They divide their time between Indonesia and the United States site_link The winner of the 2023 Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize selected by Divya Victor Breaking the silence and collective amnesia around the Indonesian mass killings of 1965. Book Interrogation records retention To this day there exists a black hole of silence in Indonesia s socio political climate in acknowledging the 1965 Indonesian mass killings as what they were tragedy Jeddie Sophronius s Interrogation Records is a rare docupoetry collection that explores and calls into question the official narratives revolving around the 1965 massacre. Interrogation recordscreen io Also known as The Communist Purge the massacre resulted in the slaughter of members of the Indonesian Communist Party PKI and anyone accused of affiliations to it many of whom were civilians by the Indonesian army Throughout the collection the voice of Sophronius s speaker researcher is quiet but always present contending with the aftermath of state violence and silencing in a masterful blend of personal and collective history memory and remembering Sophronius presents both authoritative and artistic language in the same plane urging us to consider how documents archives and testimony may hold affective power and excavate a different truth. Interrogation Records epublishing Within a climate of silence and erasure Interrogation Records is a remedy of collective amnesia Interrogation Records Poemswell it s hard to be impartial about one s friends i love this book i have the first draft of to kill a chicken tucked into a journal from five years ago because jeddie brought it into workshop and i was like what the fuck you can do that with poetry brought to me a history i d never heard of the mass slaughter of communists in indonesia in the 1960s jeddie doesn t flinch his work is careful and unsparing and i feel very honored to know him and to hold this book in my hands 1958652075 This book is a vital exploration of a little known historical event Sophronius refuses the instinct both in Indonesia and abroad to neglect learning about the Indonesian killings of 1965 1966 His approach is painstakingly archival and yet highly personal in his empathy for and connection to the victims of the massacre His use of repetitive forms like the pantoum and visual poetics that can be read multiple ways were striking I expect this stellar documentary poetry collection to stay with me for a long time It deserves to be widely read and shared 1958652075