Ikhda, by Ikhda

By Ikhda Ayuning Maharsi Degoul

A mind-blowing collection of poems about love, life, and a long-overdue introduction to the unique worldview of Ikhda Ayuning Maharsi. Ikhda captures the intensity and wildness of love, sex, motherhood and family ties through her heady and sensual poems and character sketches. She flexes and chivvies the English language into hitherto undreamt-of places, dipping occasionally into French and Italian, and presents it all back to the reader in compelling, undeniably truthful nuggets, with exquisite tenderness and humanity.
Ikhda Ayuning Maharsi has worked in television, advertising and as a scriptwriter on a sitcom in Indonesia. She performed her poetry for the first time in 2011, at Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris. She now lives in Naples, where she is enjoying her new role as mother to her little boy Corentin.

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Emma Press
• Release date: Aug 10, 2014
• ISBN: 9781910139097

Ikhda Ayuning Maharsi Degoul

Ikhda Ayuning Maharsi Degoul is an Indonesian poet from Surabaya, currently based in Kyoto, Japan. Her debut pamphlet, "Ikhda by Ikhda", was published by the Emma Press in 2014. Her poems have been published in "Mildly Erotic Verse" and "The Emma Press Anthology of Motherhood". She is co-translator of several books from Indonesian into English, including "The Adventures of Na Willa" by Reda Gaudiamo.

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Author’s Note

This collection of poetry is intended to free the prejudices of every reader. It was born and compiled with the themes of love, life and whatever – spontaneous emotions are behind it. I believe that poetry is the angel that saves me from heavy scepticism in the life drama. Poetry can be humble, honest, undeniable, and friendly. But it can also be wild, angry, aggressive, and not easily absorbed. It really doesn’t matter that we know poetry isn’t a conclusion, but a process for tolerating any incident. Life’s incidents.

Poetry is a healing drug, or meditation. These poems are not just anti-cliché, but zen and anti-zen. They are a recapitulation of the many human responses to everything that happens in society. My deep adoration of multiculturalism can be read in some of my poems which mention space, proximity, and zone.

Happy reading!

Ikhda Ayuning Maharsi

March 2014

Ikhda, by Ikhda

by Ikhda Ayuning Maharsi

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Dedication

Vincent, thank you for showing me the different skies.

Corentin, son, you are inside my blood cells.

Mama, thank you for the wings.

Papa, just don’t stop dancing.

‘Humanism’ in fact, could be defined by its