The author and translator of this book want to thank the following journals for publishing poems from this book, sometimes in different forms or under different titles: ‘He and the Tree’, ‘Sergius Seeks Bacchus’, ‘Inferno’, ‘Purgatorio’, ‘Paradiso’, ‘Curriculum Vitae’ in Asymptote; ‘Curriculum Vitae’ and ‘He and the Tree’ were reprinted in AJAR; ‘Cooking Instant Noodles at the End of the Rainbow’ in Cordite Poetry Review; ‘A History-to-Come of Helmbrellas: Their Features and Fates’ in Asian American Writers’ Workshop’s The Margins for their Transpacific Literary Project; ‘A Flyer’ in Modern Poetry in Translation; ‘On a Pair of Young Men in the Underground Car Park at fX Sudirman Mall’, ‘What the Dead Ask from the Departed’, ‘Scenes from a Beautiful Life’, ‘Update on the Left-Behind Woman’ in Asia Literary Review. We would also like to thank English PEN for supporting and highlighting this book through their PEN Translates and PEN Presents programmes.
The author of this book also wants to send virtual hugs to Leopold Adi Surya, Mirna Yulistianti & Gramedia Pustaka Utama, Nhã Thuyên & Kaitlin Rees & the whole family of AJAR, Intan Paramaditha, Cyntha Hariadi, Ellen van Neerven, Saaro Umar, Han Yujoo, Gratiagusti Chananya Rompas, Naomi Srikandi, Sukutangan, and Perdana Putri.