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. ...

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. ...