Avianti Armand, Women Whose Names Were Erased and was born on Wakka

and was born on Wakka Wakka land in South Western Queensland near Murgon on a ‘punishment reserve’ outside Cherbourg

including a day at the races (2003)

and the diaspora experience

She has translated four books of poetry/poetry criticism into Chinese and co-translated four volumes of poetry from Chinese into English including The Book of Cranes (Vagabond Press 2015) and Empty Chairs (Graywolf Press 2015)

Avianti Armand, Women Whose Names Were Erased and was born on WakkaTranslated by Eliza Vitri Handayani. Reading Holy Books is like entering a labyrinth. In that labyrinth fact and fiction are tangled. Worlds intertwined with words. And those words present a chunk of a universe, which is incomplete and not entirely truthful, it hides some things that we do not yet know. The poems in this book are lifted off the Holy Books, The Old Testament. The book is rendered with women who are present, alive, and weaving history