Before Dawn - Suddenly the Night, Lontar first publication, was released in 1987. Before Dawn, a completely revised and expanded version of this work, contains an additional thirty poems by Sapardi Djoko Damono, on of Indonesia’s most prominent poets. The writer, through the language of his poetry and its meaning, sound and rhythem, proves himself capable of depicting a highly imaginative awareness of experience. ...

Released on the hundredth-day anniversary of the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York, this anthology contains poems, short stories and essays by seventeen Indonesian writers who visited or lived in New York. ...

Ketika Indonesia mengalami kekacauan politik pada tahun 1965-1966 sejumlah pengarang Indonesia terdampar di luar negeri dan tidak bisa atau diperbolehkan pulang ke tanah air. Dari tangan mereka muncul fenomena yang dikenal sebagai sastra eksil Indonesia. Buku Di Negeri Orang: Puisi Penyair Indonesia Eksil merupakan hasil kerjasama Yayasan Lontar dan Yayasan Sejarah dan Budaya Indonesia (YSBI), sebuah organisasi nir-laba di negeri Belanda yang memelopori penerbitan karangan dan kreasi lain ...

The more than one hundred poems in this book trace the development of Indonesia’s longest-reigning poet, from before the revolution through the turbulent 1960s and finally to his current residence abroad. ...