Salvage Poems by CynthiaDewiOka Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2017 by Triquarterly ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-3629-8, ISBN: 0-8101-3629-5 "How do we transform the wreckage of our identities? Cynthia Dewi Oka’s evocative collection answers this question by brimming with what we salvage from our most deep-seated battles. Reflecting the many dimensions of the poet’s life, Salvage manifests an intermixture of aesthetic forms that encompasses multiple social, political, and cultural contexts—leading readers to Bali, Indonesia, to the Pacific Northwest, and to South Jersey and P ..."
A Tinderbox in Three Acts by CynthiaDewiOka Paperback, Published 2022 by Boa Editions Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-950774-71-5, ISBN: 1-950774-71-6 "Here, history as an artifact of the powerful is trumped by the halting memory of the people whom power sought to destroy. Where memory fails, here is poetry to honor the dishonored, the betrayed, the lost and still-awaited."
Fire Is Not a Country Poems (Paperback) by CynthiaDewiOka Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2021 by Northwestern University Press, United States ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-4421-7, ISBN: 0-8101-4421-2 "Oka's speakers mourn, labor, argue, digress, avenge, and fail, but they do not retreat. Born of conflicts public and private, this collection is for anyone interested in what it means to engage the multitudes within ourselves."
Nomad of Salt and Hard Water(2nd Edition) Poems by CynthiaDewiOka Paperback, 100 Pages, Published 2016 by Thread Makes Blanket Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9897474-0-0, ISBN: 0-9897474-0-9 "This second edition of nomad of salt and hard water is evidence of how language that is fixed, as in a traditional publication, or unmoored, as in this new and revised edition, is made up of malleable meaning. Over time our relationship to language changes. While Cynthia Dewi Oka's thematic concerns--displacement and exile, the weight of identity and its inevitable fragmentation, and what she eloquently calls difficult beauty--remain, h ..."
Fire Is Not a Country Poems by CynthiaDewiOka 80 Pages, Published 2021 by Northwestern University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-4422-4, ISBN: 0-8101-4422-0 "... Debra Allbery for the literary home I needed to get out of my own way. To Val, thank you for teaching me to live with both eyes open and reminding me that I am worth fighting for. To my Pejuang family— Katherine Antarikso, Sinta Penyami ..."
Salvage Poems by CynthiaDewiOka 96 Pages, Published 2017 by Northwestern University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-3630-4, ISBN: 0-8101-3630-9 "Oka’s language transports us through the many bodies of fluid poetics that inhabit our migrating senses and permeate across generations into a personal diaspora. Salvage invites us to be without borders."
