On God and Unfinished Things (Ed. Bahasa Inggris)

On God and Other Unfinished Things is a poetry collection and also “scraps of thought” from Goenawan Mohamad. A word “scraps” is apt for the task at hand because this is hardly a full script. Each of its parts was written with something close to brevity a cut or a remnant of sorts of a larger piece, or notes taken while traveling. All 99 of these “scraps” can be read sometimes as parts that support or refute one another, and at other times as pieces that stand on their own. All were written in times when God seemed to be irrefutable and Religion & Spirituality gained ever more currency in the lives of many: dispensing strength and illuminating the path ahead, but times which were at the same time threatening.