Sapardi Djoko Damono: Writings on Stone

With 'stone' as the common thread, Babad Batu is a cerebral journey on a road with many side roads. Sapardis latest collection is encyclopedic, primordial and political.

January 17, 2017

Sapardi Djoko Damono's poetry is often inviting due to its narrative form, which in fact shrouds the complexity of his poems. In his poetry, Sapardi consistently disrupts the narrative using the 'antinarrative': juxtapositions, repetitions, dissonances (of sound and imagery), and so on. The elements of his lyrical poetry always create a delay in the fulfilment of its narrative.

The play on endrhymes is not very important for Sapardi as they are for

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