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Cynthia Dewi Oka
Cynthia Dewi Oka
Order A TINDERBOX IN THREE ACTS (BOA Editions, 2022)
Order A TINDERBOX IN THREE ACTS (BOA Editions, 2022)
Selected by Aracelis Girmay, A Tinderbox in Three Acts is at once elegy and exegesis, fact and invention. In her fourth poetry collection, Cynthia Dewi Oka performs a lyric accounting of the anti-Communist genocide of 1965, which, led by the Indonesian military and with American assistance, erased and devastated milli
Order FIRE IS NOT A COUNTRY (Northwestern University Press, 2021)
Order FIRE IS NOT A COUNTRY (Northwestern University Press, 2021)
A TINDERBOX IN THREE ACTS in Publishers Weekly
A TINDERBOX IN THREE ACTS in Publishers Weekly
Combining inventive verse forms with urgent and incisive political commentary, Oka’s searing latest (after Salvage) shines light...
The Shape of Our Shared World: An Interview with Cynthia Dewi Oka
The Shape of Our Shared World: An Interview with Cynthia Dewi Oka
Cynthia Dewi Oka is the author of A Tinderbox in Three Acts, which was published by BOA Editions on October 11, 2022 as a Blessing the Boats Selection, chosen by Aracelis Girmay. In her fourth poetry collection, Oka performs a lyric accounting of the anti-Communist genocide of 1965, which, led by the Indonesian militar
"How Bruce Lee combined martial arts with the blaxploitation genre" at The Undefeated
"How Bruce Lee combined martial arts with the blaxploitation genre" at The Undefeated
"Ode Where Milk Was Rare" at Zocalo Public Square
"Ode Where Milk Was Rare" at Zocalo Public Square
Buy my book Salvage: Poems (Northwestern University Prize, 2017)
Buy my book Salvage: Poems (Northwestern University Prize, 2017)
Buy my book Nomad of Salt and Hard Water (Thread Makes Blanket, 2016)
Buy my book Nomad of Salt and Hard Water (Thread Makes Blanket, 2016)
Poems on Academy of American Poets
Poems on Academy of American Poets
Tupelo Quarterly Poetry Prize Winner 2019: "Meditation on the Worth of Anything"
Tupelo Quarterly Poetry Prize Winner 2019: "Meditation on the Worth of Anything"
A tall man wipes ashes from his lips. “I’ll pay you,” he says. “If you’re worthy.” From the lamp of his skull, a steeple rises. Roaches seek warmth in the dead bells, while cherry blossoms burst their green corsets. My mother at the end of a 12-hour shift at the […]
Tupelo Quarterly Poetry Prize Finalist 2019: "21 Lessons in the Art of Embouchure"
Tupelo Quarterly Poetry Prize Finalist 2019: "21 Lessons in the Art of Embouchure"
1. There are right and wrong ways to put your mouth around the void in the metal. 2. The mother is a hidden compound. 3. The mother is a king, lonely and grey, whose crown of matches is alive. 4. Prepare for harrow and beauty. Their digressions. 5. A […]
PRISM International Exclusive: "In Europe, My Mother Wears Shades"
PRISM International Exclusive: "In Europe, My Mother Wears Shades"
Two poems in Scoundrel Time
Two poems in Scoundrel Time
One poem in wildness journal (Platypus Press)
One poem in wildness journal (Platypus Press)
One poem in Hyperallergic
One poem in Hyperallergic
Our poetry editor, Wendy Xu, has selected one poem by Cynthia Dewi Oka for her monthly series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
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