ELLIPSIS: poems and prose poems
By Laksmi Pamuntjak

ABOUT THE BOOK
‘Lyrical and elegiac, Laksmi Pamuntjak’s poetry moves you with the speed of a heartache.’ – Felix Cheong, author of Temptation and Other Poems, I Watch the Stars Go Out and Broken by the Rain.

‘Pamuntjak writes in the introspective style that is at once intimate—but also, in the poet’s own words – ‘giddy, glowing, red hot.’ – Cyril Wong, author of squatting quietly, the end of his orbit, below: absence, and unmarked treasure.

‘Ellipsis contains some of the freshest, most sensual poems I have ever read…the writing is diamond-cut yet visceral, suffused with intellect yet shamanic…in Ellipsis, there are no masks, no mirrors, just truth, caught momentarily like a silhouette, like “ashes falling before [our] eyes”. And so, we move through the rational, the intuitive, the spiritual, to the beyond…’ – Suhayl Saadi, author of Psychoraag and The Burning Mirror.

‘Ellipsis shows the working of a feminine sensibility, a refined one at that, in exploring human(woman) being in her full-spectrum: roles, relations, desires, wounds, memories. The poems are the word not said in speech; the way of the subtle arising unannounced: the timelessness in the temporal, the extraordinary out of the ordinary, absence in presence - echoed through and through in Laksmi’s poems.’ –Nukila Amal, author of Cala Ibi and Laluba.

‘…a highly recommended read… it is hard not to get caught up in the (poems)’ sheer energy and celebration of language, or as Pamuntjak writes, ‘a world of the word.’ – The Straits Times.

‘…Aesthetically intense and powerfully sensual poetry collection…the poetry is attuned, meticulous, deft and the reader is transfigured by a “lea of silences.’ – The Herald UK.