Will Harris

RENDANG


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      RENDANG

      Will Harris

      WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS

      Middletown, Connecticut

      Wesleyan University Press

      Middletown CT 06459

       www.wesleyan.edu/wespress

      Copyright © by Will Harris, 2020

      All rights reserved

      First published in Great Britain by Granta Books, 2020

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      Typeset in Minion by Patty Renni

      Image on page 40 copyright © The Trustees of the British Museum

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Harris, Will, author.

      Title: Rendang / Will Harris.

      Description: Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, 2020. |

      Series: Wesleyan poetry | Co-published in Great Britain by Granta Books, 2020. | Summary: “Traveling from West Sumatra to Planet Mongo via the Gray’s Inn Road, through Indonesian artifacts and issues of gentrification. RENDANG is a dissection of (and love letter to) histories, places, and things”— Provided by publisher.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2020004024 (print) | LCCN 2020004025 (ebook) | ISBN 9780819579898 (trade paperback) | ISBN 9780819579904 (ebook)

      Subjects: LCGFT: Poetry.

      Classification: LCC PR6108.A769 R46 2020 (print) | LCC PR6108. A769 (ebook) | DDC 821/.92—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020004024

      LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020004025

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      “Front cover illustration: Aisha Farr, Likeness, wool tapestry, (58x65cm).”

       CONTENTS

In West Sumatra 1
1/
Holy Man 5
Mother Country 8
State-Building 9
Lines of Flight 11
My Name Is Dai 15
The White Jumper 17
2/
Seven Dreams of Richard Spencer 31
Yellow 34
Pathetic Earthlings 37
Glass Case 38
Scene Change 41
3/
Break 45
Buddleia Not Buddha 47
From the other side of Shooter’s Hill 48
The Hanged Man 50
Another Life 51
All the Birds Are Your Husband 53
4/
SAY 61