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Kink
In his sophomore book, Ray Shabir presents an almost religious celebration of pain, through the many lenses of pleasure.
In these intimate, sometimes urgent poems, Ray retraces his steps back to his own origin of desire, to interrogate his own ideas of pleasure. For him, and perhaps quite a few of us, it starts with a wound that becomes our senses of what it’s like to want and be wanted. The poetry collection chronicles his way to reclaim his sense of self and find his relationship with power. Through its confessional fantasies and violent sensibilities, KINK is an attempt to find a place between dominance and submission, a search for stolen desires and a longing for relief.
In these intimate, sometimes urgent poems, Ray retraces his steps back to his own origin of desire, to interrogate his own ideas of pleasure. For him, and perhaps quite a few of us, it starts with a wound that becomes our senses of what it’s like to want and be wanted. The poetry collection chronicles his way to reclaim his sense of self and find his relationship with power. Through its confessional fantasies and violent sensibilities, KINK is an attempt to find a place between dominance and submission, a search for stolen desires and a longing for relief.
144 pages, Paperback
Published August 25, 2021
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January 24, 2022
Buku karya Ray Shabir pertama yang aku baca. Seperti yang mungkin sudah kalian ketahui, this is a poetry book that written in English.
Memahami puisi yang ada disini menurutku gampang-gampang susah. Ada puisi yang aku langsung ngeh maksud yang disampaikan, ada juga yang aku baca ulang dulu baru ngeh. Meskipun demikian, menurutku perasaan yang dituangkan penulisnya terasa dalam setiap bait puisinya—mungkin karena adanya pengulangan kata/kalimat tertentu yg kesannya kyk mempertegas gitu. Puisi yg ada disini jg menurutku ditulis dengan indah. Personal favorite: I Want It Darker.
Buku ini ga hanya berisikan puisi, melainkan ada juga ilustrasi disini. Ilustrasinya didominasi warna pink (ada item juga sih tapi ga banyak). Dari segi layout & grafisnya menurutku oke bgt! Font yg dipilih juga mnrtku cakepbgt. Ya intinya dari segi estetika, buku ini top bgt.
Ga banyak yg mau aku sampaikan di review kali ini soalnya aku jg gaterlalu sering baca buku2 puisi hehe but this book is good! Bukunya hardcover jd cocok jg buat dikoleksi. Setelah baca buku ini, aku jd penasaran dgn buku kak Ray Shabir yg judulnya "Public Feelings & Other Acts".
Anyway, thank u kak Ray buat bukunya! Kalo kalian pengen baca juga, bukunya tersedia di gramedia.com atau di marketplace official gramedia😉👋🏻
Memahami puisi yang ada disini menurutku gampang-gampang susah. Ada puisi yang aku langsung ngeh maksud yang disampaikan, ada juga yang aku baca ulang dulu baru ngeh. Meskipun demikian, menurutku perasaan yang dituangkan penulisnya terasa dalam setiap bait puisinya—mungkin karena adanya pengulangan kata/kalimat tertentu yg kesannya kyk mempertegas gitu. Puisi yg ada disini jg menurutku ditulis dengan indah. Personal favorite: I Want It Darker.
Buku ini ga hanya berisikan puisi, melainkan ada juga ilustrasi disini. Ilustrasinya didominasi warna pink (ada item juga sih tapi ga banyak). Dari segi layout & grafisnya menurutku oke bgt! Font yg dipilih juga mnrtku cakepbgt. Ya intinya dari segi estetika, buku ini top bgt.
Ga banyak yg mau aku sampaikan di review kali ini soalnya aku jg gaterlalu sering baca buku2 puisi hehe but this book is good! Bukunya hardcover jd cocok jg buat dikoleksi. Setelah baca buku ini, aku jd penasaran dgn buku kak Ray Shabir yg judulnya "Public Feelings & Other Acts".
Anyway, thank u kak Ray buat bukunya! Kalo kalian pengen baca juga, bukunya tersedia di gramedia.com atau di marketplace official gramedia😉👋🏻
September 26, 2025
puisi uniqlo greed is good is the best one. gym soap, osiris, edge of desires, paradisco, the garden are cool too. the pink recoloring pleasing the eyes.
October 9, 2022
idk what to say but oh my god i'm really mesmerized by beauty of this book
November 1, 2022
Evocative and honest, Ray Shabir weaves poetry the way doctors stich a wound, painful but you will heal.
July 4, 2022
Kink - Ray Shabir
“Kink is an attempt to explore my desires, and finally attest to it.”
“Kink is a book made of tragedy. Slowly, I started to recognize my own pain.”
“I Imagined the birth of my desires and what would be the death of it. Kink is a celebration of my little deaths and little breaths of rescuscitation, gasping over and over; until finally, they’re breathing again. With Kink, I’ve completed a tapestry of pain.”
Under society’s immense pressure to become “something”, we tend to lose a far more important things in the process: ourselves. Desires and Pain, we gloss over matters, hides parts of what makes us — us. In a society where flaws is sins and conformity is a norm; Kink reminds us the art of self.
Kink is a poetry book dedicated to explore the concept of pain and pleasure. While desire and pain is oftentime seen under the lens of shame; Kink, for me, is a testament of acceptance, of liberation, of being human — and Ray Shabir frames every part of it like a true artist: Haunting.
The poetry is simply stunning, the art is curated along words so fitting, it seemed that it has a mind on its own. Every words on its 57 collection of poems sets out to be a reminder: we’re alive and are whole.
“Kink is an attempt to explore my desires, and finally attest to it.”
“Kink is a book made of tragedy. Slowly, I started to recognize my own pain.”
“I Imagined the birth of my desires and what would be the death of it. Kink is a celebration of my little deaths and little breaths of rescuscitation, gasping over and over; until finally, they’re breathing again. With Kink, I’ve completed a tapestry of pain.”
Under society’s immense pressure to become “something”, we tend to lose a far more important things in the process: ourselves. Desires and Pain, we gloss over matters, hides parts of what makes us — us. In a society where flaws is sins and conformity is a norm; Kink reminds us the art of self.
Kink is a poetry book dedicated to explore the concept of pain and pleasure. While desire and pain is oftentime seen under the lens of shame; Kink, for me, is a testament of acceptance, of liberation, of being human — and Ray Shabir frames every part of it like a true artist: Haunting.
The poetry is simply stunning, the art is curated along words so fitting, it seemed that it has a mind on its own. Every words on its 57 collection of poems sets out to be a reminder: we’re alive and are whole.
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