{"product_id":"9781925818109","title":"Sergius Seeks Bacchus","description":"Author: Norman Erikson Pasaribu\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781925818109\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Giramondo Publishing\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Jun 2019\u003cbr\u003ePages: 96\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo say it is hard to be queer in Indonesiais a gross understatement. LGBTQI Indonesians encounter violence on a regularbasis  from those around them, and increasingly, from the state itself. Yetthis was the stage on which Norman Erikson Pasaribu's poetry collection \u003ci\u003eSergius Seeks Bacchus \u003c\/i\u003emade its debut,breaking new ground to become, in the words of another Indonesian poet MikaelJohani, 'a queer pioneer' on 'an extremely heteronormative poetry scene'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSergius Seeks Bacchus \u003c\/i\u003eis a heart-breaking yet humorous rumination on what it means to bein the minority on multiple levels - in terms of sexuality, but also, ethnicityand religion. Drawing on the experiences of fellow members of the queercommunity and especially on the poet's life as an openly gay writer ofBataknese descent and Christian background, the collection furnishes readerswith an alternative gospel, a book of bittersweet and tragicomic good newspieced together from the poet's encounters with ridicule, persecution,loneliness, and also, happiness.\u0026amp;nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e'\u003c\/i\u003eThe poems, though seeminglylight-hearted, provide the reader room to delve deeper into many matters, boththe tragic and comic aspects of humanity: sex, religion, and politics, evenpoetry itself. His greatest strength, however, lies in his sly humour  his abilityto write poems without putting on poetic airs.'\u0026amp;nbsp;- EkaKurniawan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'His is a new and magical voiceemerging in literature, yet one almost preternaturally wise, profoundlycelebratory of the history and possibility of poetry.'\u0026amp;nbsp;- Christos Tsiolkas\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46867093684382,"sku":"ADS-9781925818109","price":24.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781925818109.jpg?v=1779429743","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781925818109","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}