All of us are walking toward something, yet some of us take detours, or go in circles without ever reaching the destination. Some get stopped in their tracks, some keep moving without making any steps forward. There are even those who take the wrong path. Agung Setiawan's poems are an exploration of the movement and stillness of the human experience.

Poems spanning through ages of love, banditary, rebellion, war and unrest, Deddy addresses the human history of the Western coastal area of Sumatra with a careful lense, surveying the politics of the spice trade at the brink of the first European colonial contact.

A contemplation on the relationship between humanity, nature, God, and the revelation of our own being which encapsulates the experience of living in the universe.

A selection of poems responding to the tales contained in Roman poetry, especially stories inspired by Virgil and Ovid. Reminiscient of a Greek tragedy, the collection calls to mind echoes of an age long gone from a perscpetive of the gentle nihilism of the now.