oleh Afrizal Malna Yayasan Bentang Budaya, 2000 580 halaman (dapat salam dari War and Peace) aku sudah beli buku ini lama, bertahun2, tapi tak pernah membacanya karena berat, like literally, this book is a doorstopper/brick/a ton of bricks. berat banget. kertasnya tebal, kertas sampulnya art paper tebal. makes me think mungkin ipad gakContinue reading “Sesuatu Indonesia: Personifikasi Pembaca Yang Tak Bersih”
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Kunci: Himpunan Puisi
by TS Pinang very interesting post-afrizal collection of poems. if afrizal’s poems contain words that serve as indexes of the world/semiotic relationships around them, ts (apa itu ts, tanya anak2 buma di antologi buma 1) pinang’s poems are like extended footnotes to these index entries. “kami membaca kulkas dan televisi di selebaran promo diskonContinue reading “Kunci: Himpunan Puisi”
sastra kesaksian atau romantika semata?
esei damhuri muhammad di kompas minggu (2/8/09), yang berjudul ‘romantika pasca-enam lima’, meminjam istilah pengarangnya sendiri adalah tulisan yang tidak ‘akan berdiri sebagai peristiwa yang mandiri’. kita perlu memperhitungkan ‘fakta-fakta’ di luar ‘esei’ ini. membaca esei ini saya jadi sadar, damhuri memang hidup di masa ‘pasca-65’ tapi mungkin bukan tahun 2009. begitu takutnya dia denganContinue reading “sastra kesaksian atau romantika semata?”
Tante Sophie
around the same time i decided to publish The Book, i bought a new vespa too. and by ‘bought a new vespa’ i meant buying a vespa that is new. 2007 issue. but the newness is not the point. what is the point. off all this shit. the shit is the relationship i had withContinue reading “Tante Sophie”
kritisisme anyar
dialog sing asale soko blog favoritku iki (tulisan nang ngisor iki luwih iso dinikmati nang kono): anggoro gunawan: ing basa jawa, tembung kriya (kata kerja) iku ora kaya basa inggris sing nduwèni wektu. tembung turu, mbok saiki, wingi, sesuk, utawa kapan waè tetep “turu.” beda karo sleep, slept, sleep. wong jawa mataraman sing akrab karoContinue reading “kritisisme anyar”
let’s judge a book by its cover
David=Saut’s Death=Apotheosis of Marat=Saut By 1793=2009, the violence of the [boemipoetra] Revolution dramatically increased until the beheadings at the Place de la Concorde=Salihara became a constant, leading a certain Dr. Joseph Guillotine=Saut Situmorang [Saut henceforth] to invent a machine that would improve the efficiency of the ax and block=Saut and therefore make executions more humane.Continue reading “let’s judge a book by its cover”
mata bukan ilalang*
Di Matamu Yang Ilalang oleh ghe Bad news first, nggak apa-apa, karena saya kira akhirnya puisi ini cukup kuat untuk menerima all kinds of news. Mungkin ada empat, pertama kata ilalang itu, yang sudah terlalu sering kita dengar di segala sesuatu yang ‘puitis’, dari D. Zawawi Imron’s ‘Bulan Tertusuk [I]lalang’ sampai nama komunitas yang penyairnya banyakContinue reading “mata bukan ilalang*”
depressed diaspora of the world unite!*
In the Cold November Rain The Bus Driver’s Wife Five Minutes Oleh FrenZy Not only are these stories written in English, they’re set outside Indonesia, the first in London, then Brisbane, and Melbourne. Gets rid of one problem: something that sometimes Laksmi Pamuntjak (say) struggles with in her English poems/short-stories. Like I’ve written and pointedContinue reading “depressed diaspora of the world unite!*”
More honesty you don’t need/more of me repeating myself repeating myself myself myself
«And one night I woke up in room A007 and went straight to my desk (so fast I almost went at it), opened a notebook my mom had left me on her last visit when she threw a full good box of Honey Crunch cereal down the sink, one of the many drug companies’ giftsContinue reading “More honesty you don’t need/more of me repeating myself repeating myself myself myself”
kritik sayembara sastra
SEKALI LAGI seandainya dewan juri bisa membaca entri-entri blogmu yang lain, hols, mereka akan menemukan surat berseri-mu, travelogue-mu, potongan chat-mu, mini play-mu, reportase-mu, penggalan teka-teki silang-mu, etc, etc. jadi, apa bedanya blog-mu dengan kotak yang menyimpan oeuvre fernando pessoa dengan segala macam heteronym-nya itu? apakah setiap karya itu milik masing-masing heteronym-nya atau seorang (yang katanya)Continue reading “kritik sayembara sastra”
Divagyrations 