Poetry.org: "In 1974 Silliman began working on a long poem or life-work he calls Ketjak, after the Balinese word for “monkey” and a ritual performance done by the islanders for tourists. When finished, Ketjak will be composed of four long poems The Age of Huts (1974-1980; first published 1986, compleat in 2007), Tjanting (1979-1981; published 1981), The Alphabet (1979-2004; published 2008), and Universe (2005-present; Revelator, the first volume, published 2013). Ketjak is also the name of the book-length poem Silliman published in 1978, and is the first section of The Age of Huts. Intimately connected with Silliman’s interest in poetics and critical theory, the poem Ketjak also made use of “new sentence” techniques."