Goenawan Mohamad Selected Poems
Editor: Laksmi Pamuntjak
Publisher: In cooperation with the Lontar Foundation, 2004
Number of Pages: xv + 150 pages

ANTHROPOLOGIST Clifford Geertz once quoted T.S. Eliot as saying, "A bad poet borrows, a good poet steals." Whatever the case may be, borrowing or stealing is always related to an act of transferring, namely that of translation. Thus, one may be surprised to read the opening sentence in