Rendra, penyair legendaris negeri ini, telah lama berpulang. Namun, dia tidak sepenuhnya pergi. Ditinggalkannya alunan kata yang indah dan bertenaga bagi kita. Rendra bukan hanya seorang penyaji estetika. Dia turut menghadirkan realita di dalamnya. Perhatikanlah betapa puisi-puisinya selalu bicara tentang peristiwa di sekeliling kita. Tentang mulut-mulut yang terbungkam. Tentang orang-orang yan…
One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Euripides' masterwork centers on the myth of Jason, leader of the Argonauts, who has won the dragon-guarded treasure of the Golden Fleece with the help of the sorceress Medea — whom he marries and eventually abandons.
Faowzi, who beats everyone at dominoes; Ibtisam, who wanted to be a doctor; Abu Mahmoud, who knows every eggplant and peach in his west bank garden; mysterious uncle mohammed, who moved to the mountain; a girl in a red sweater; children in velvet dresses; baba kamalyari, age 71; mr. dajani and his swans; sitti khandra, who never lost her peace inside.
A collection of poems and drawings that feature a boy who turns into a TV set, and a girl who eats a whale, a place where you wash your shadow and plant diamond gardens, a place where shoes fly, sisters are auctioned off, and crocodiles go to the dentist.
Sapardi Djoko Damono, one of Indonesia's most productive and popular poets first began writing poetry as a high school student in the mid- 1950s. Before Dawn includes poems written by the author over a forty year time span, from 1961 to 2001. Arranged as they are in chronological order, the poems in Before Dawn together form a kind of poetic autobiography. In "One Night," written in 1964, the a…
In her room in Amherst, Emily Dickinson wrote some of the most remarkable poetry ever composed. Only a few of her verses were published in her lifetime, but now all her poems are read worldwide.