Sergius Seeks Bacchus is a heartbreaking and humorous rumination on what it means to be in the minority in terms of sexuality ethnicity and religion. Drawing on the poets life as an openly gay writer of Bataknese descent and Christian background the collection furnishes readers with an alternative gospel a book of bittersweet and tragicomic good news pieced together from encounters with ridicule persecution loneliness and also happiness. The thirtythree poems in Norman Pasaribus prizewinning d