From the author of Sergius Seeks Bacchus and Happy Stories Mostly Norman Erikson Pasaribu, comes their first English-language poetry collection. Expertly crafted, My Dream Job is a tender playground of intellect and wit, where cultural extraction is the muse and spectres, the hope. The ultimate eulogy for a postcolonial dream.

Sergius Seeks Bacchus is a heart-breaking and humorous rumination on what it means to be in the minority in terms of sexuality, ethnicity, and religion. Drawing on the poet’s life as an openly gay writer of Bataknese descent and Christian background, the collection furnishes...