Anagram: word rearranged to form another. A metaphor for change and reinvention, a hermeneutic examination of the self, which nevertheless retains the basic elements that make up the consciousness. In her second collection of poetry, Laksmi Pamuntjak continues to look at human experiences and the stuff of everyday life: of love and loss, of grief and regret, of acceptance and rebellion, of fear of the unmapped and delight in the new, of redemption and the possibility of grace. This volume also includes eight poems on Buru Island in “From the Buru Notebook”, which focuses on a period during President Suharto’s administration (1965-1998) in which the island was turned into the site of a large penal colony where approximately 12,000 accused Communists and Communist Party sympathizers were detained for more than a decade without being formally charged or tried in court.