Mikael Johani

Writer

Born Yogyakarta, currently resides in Jakarta
Personal Web http://mikaeljohani.com
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Mikael Johani was not born in Rochester, New York, in 1927 and was never educated at Harvard or Columbia universities. He has not written nineteen previous book of poetry. Never has been and never will be Charles P. Stevenson, Jr., Professor of Language and Literature at Bard College, he does not live in New York City and Hudson, New York. His poetry is not a rigorous searched for “the unknown” – but still based on a “reasoned disordering of all the senses” by means of alcohol and, when money allows, [ ].¹

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Book(s)

We Are Nowhere and It’s Wow.
Poetry Collection
90 page(s), POST Press

also Writes ...

from mongrel kampung, published in Asymptote

Two new poems by Mikael Johani, published in Johannesburg Review of Books

BRAM, published in VICE

Also Mentioned in ...

Young readers find sense of community as Indonesia’s literary scene expands by Nisya Kunto - Southeast Asia Globe (Sep 12, 2022)

Singapore Writers Festival beams in literary stars by Josa Lukman - Jakarta Post (Nov 04, 2020)

The Problem With Promoting Indonesian Literature Abroad?: A Simplistic White Gaze by Theodora Sarah Abigail - Jakarta Globe (Mar 05, 2019)

Indie bookstores emphasize curation - Jakarta Post (Jul 23, 2018)

Book Story(s)

Everything You Always Wanted to Happen in the Bumi Manusia Film* (*but Were Afraid to Ask) (Bumi Manusia (Tetralogi Buru #1)), published in Jakarta Globe (Aug 09, 2019)

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