Goenawan Mohamad’s Gracious Farewell

MEANINGFUL writing fills every page of this weekly magazine. And especially so on its last page, always written by Goenawan Mohamad (GM). Not only does he write elegantly, every one of his words conveys his honest and unvarnished interpretations of past, current, and future events. GM often takes as his background an event from the distant past, and then readily builds on that a structure that would rev