1 'The President of Indonesian Poets' - Sutardji Calzoum Bachri

At first Sutardji Calzoum Bachri began writing in newspapers and weeklies in Bandung, then his poems published in magazines and Cultural Horizons Jaya and cultural space Sinar Harapan and Berita Buana.


From his poems it Sutardji revealing himself as a reformer perpuisian Indonesia. Mainly because his conception of the word that would be released from the confines of understanding and the return on the function word as the mantra.


In the summer of 1974, Sutardji Calzoum Bachri follow in the Rotterdam International Poetry Reading. Then he followed the seminar International Writing Program in Iowa City, USA from October 1974 until April 1975. Sutardji also introduces a unique new way of reading poetry, and lure in Indonesia.


Harry Aveling Some poems translated into English and published in the anthology Arjuna in Meditation (Calcutta, India), Writing from the World (United States), Westerly Review (Australia) and in two anthologies in Dutch: Dichters in Rotterdam (Rotterdamse Kunststichting, 1975) and Ik wil nog leven duizend Jaar, negen Indonesische dichters moderne (1979). In 1979, Sutardji awarded the South East Asia Writer Awards for his achievements in literature in Bangkok, Thailand.


Photo above is the action in the "Week of the President Poet" in 2007 at Graha Bhakti Culture, Taman Ismail Marzuki (TIM), Jakarta.  Even some people would say he is 'The President of Indonesian Poets'.






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