For the first time this year, The White Review Poet’s Prize was open to poets based anywhere in the world. Last month we announced a shortlist of eight poets. ...
The author of novels, short stories, essays, a movie script, and graphic novels, Eka Kurniawan was born in Tasikmalaya, West Java, in 1975. Beauty Is a Wound (New Directions) and Man Tiger (Verso) were published to acclaim last year.
White silhouettes sway against softly gradated backgrounds: blues, purples, yellows and pinks. The painted palm trees are tacky and kitsch. They invoke long stretches...