Trouser Doll

Through this prize-winning collection of poetry, Joko Pinurbo brings a breath of fresh air to Indonesian literature. In his surrealistic yet humorous poems, filled with images of beds, trousers, birds and dolls, he delves into the subject of the subconscious. As literary critic Sapardi Djoko Darmono once wrote, Joko Pinurbo creates a poetic world that "straddles the line between reality and the unintelligible dream.". Reading these poems is a process of finding meaning in the vestiges of dreams left from the night before.