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Panggung dan Cermin
Antologi puisi yang berjudul Panggung dan Cermin ini merupakan panggung puitik yang dibangun oleh Adonis untuk menghadirkan kembali peristiwa masa lalu dan tokoh-tokoh lintas zaman sebagai cermin, mulai dari tokoh mitologi seperti Orpheus; tokoh masa lalu seperti Husain Bin Ali; Zaid Bin Ali, dan Al-Ma'arri; dan tokoh yang semasa dengannya seperti Khalida (istrinya). Cermin dalam dunia Adonis bukan sebatas benda yang memantulkan gambaran sesuatu sebagaimana adanya, melainkan sebuah simbol perenungan dan penyair dalam memandang liyan. Di dalamnya, ia mendefinisikan ulang realitas atau mengubah realitas itu sendiri.
224 pages, Paperback
Published August 1, 2018
About the author
Adonis
288 books214 followersAdonis was born Ali Ahmed Said in the village of Al Qassabin in Syria, in 1930, to a family of farmers, the oldest of six children. At the age of nineteen, he adopted the name Adonis (also spelled Adunis), after the Greek god of fertility, with the hopes that the new name would result in newspaper publication of his poems.
Although his family could not afford to send Adonis to school, his father taught him to read poetry and the Qu'ran, and memorize poems while he worked in the fields. When he was fourteen, Adonis read a poem to the president of Syria who was visiting a nearby town. The impressed president offered to grant a request, to which the young Adonis responded that he wanted to attend school. The president quickly made arrangements for Adonis to attend a French-run high school, after which he studied philosophy at Damascus University.
In 1956, after a year-long imprisonment for political activities, Adonis fled Syria for Beirut, Lebanon. He joined a vibrant community of artists, writers, and exiles in Beirut, and co-founded and edited Sh'ir, and later Muwaqaf, both progressive journals of poetry and politics. He studied at St. Joseph University in Beirut and obtained his Doctorat d'Etat in 1973.
Considered one of the Arab world's greatest living poets, Adonis is the author of numerous collections, including Mihyar of Damascus (BOA Editions, 2008), A Time Between Ashes and Roses (Syracuse University Press, 2004); If Only the Sea Could Sleep (2003); The Pages of Day and Night (2001); Transformations of the Lover (1982); The Book of the Five Poems (1980); The Blood of Adonis (1971), winner of the Syria-Lebanon Award of the International Poetry Forum; Songs of Mihyar the Damascene (1961), Leaves in the Wind (1958), and First Poems (1957). He is also an essayist, an editor of anthologies, a theoretician of poetics, and the translator of several works from French into Arabic.
Over the course of his career, Adonis has fearlessly experimented with form and content, pioneering the prose poem in Arabic, and taking a influential, and sometimes controversial role in Arab modernism. In a 2002 interview in the New York Times, Adonis declared: '"There is no more culture in the Arab world. It's finished. Culturally speaking, we are a part of Western culture, but only as consumers, not as creators."
Adonis's awards and honors include the first ever International Nâzim Hikmet Poetry Award, the Syria-Lebanon Best Poet Award, and the Highest Award of the International Poem Biennial in Brussels. He was elected as Stephen Mallarme Academy Member in Paris in 1983. He has taught at the Lebanese University as a professor of Arabic literature, at Damascus University, and at the Sorbonne. He has been a Lebanese citizen since 1961 and currently lives in Paris.
- See more at: http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/...
Although his family could not afford to send Adonis to school, his father taught him to read poetry and the Qu'ran, and memorize poems while he worked in the fields. When he was fourteen, Adonis read a poem to the president of Syria who was visiting a nearby town. The impressed president offered to grant a request, to which the young Adonis responded that he wanted to attend school. The president quickly made arrangements for Adonis to attend a French-run high school, after which he studied philosophy at Damascus University.
In 1956, after a year-long imprisonment for political activities, Adonis fled Syria for Beirut, Lebanon. He joined a vibrant community of artists, writers, and exiles in Beirut, and co-founded and edited Sh'ir, and later Muwaqaf, both progressive journals of poetry and politics. He studied at St. Joseph University in Beirut and obtained his Doctorat d'Etat in 1973.
Considered one of the Arab world's greatest living poets, Adonis is the author of numerous collections, including Mihyar of Damascus (BOA Editions, 2008), A Time Between Ashes and Roses (Syracuse University Press, 2004); If Only the Sea Could Sleep (2003); The Pages of Day and Night (2001); Transformations of the Lover (1982); The Book of the Five Poems (1980); The Blood of Adonis (1971), winner of the Syria-Lebanon Award of the International Poetry Forum; Songs of Mihyar the Damascene (1961), Leaves in the Wind (1958), and First Poems (1957). He is also an essayist, an editor of anthologies, a theoretician of poetics, and the translator of several works from French into Arabic.
Over the course of his career, Adonis has fearlessly experimented with form and content, pioneering the prose poem in Arabic, and taking a influential, and sometimes controversial role in Arab modernism. In a 2002 interview in the New York Times, Adonis declared: '"There is no more culture in the Arab world. It's finished. Culturally speaking, we are a part of Western culture, but only as consumers, not as creators."
Adonis's awards and honors include the first ever International Nâzim Hikmet Poetry Award, the Syria-Lebanon Best Poet Award, and the Highest Award of the International Poem Biennial in Brussels. He was elected as Stephen Mallarme Academy Member in Paris in 1983. He has taught at the Lebanese University as a professor of Arabic literature, at Damascus University, and at the Sorbonne. He has been a Lebanese citizen since 1961 and currently lives in Paris.
- See more at: http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/...
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June 26, 2022
Kumpulan sajak dalam buku ini terdiri dari puisi, drama, dialog dan beberapa bentuk sajak lain yang menurutku cukup asing. Adonis (Ali Ahmad Sa'id Isbir) terkenal sebagai pujangga berpengaruh dalam dunia sastra arab. Selain itu sajak-sajaknya terkenal rumit. Untuk bisa membuktikannya mungkin perlu membaca langsung teks aslinya. Tapi, dalam buku terjemah ini Aku banyak menemui majas dan analogi yang memang cukup sulit dicerna. Entah memang naskah aslinya demikian, atau perihal pemilihan diksi dari penerjemah yang kurang representatif. Contohnya, alih-alih menggunakan kata planet, roti, traktor (kalau tidak salah ada juga monster) kenapa tidak menyesuaikan dengan konteks agar lebih "puitis". Pada beberapa puisi aku coba mengubah kata-kata semacam itu, namun sering gagal menemukan alur yang dimaksud.
Misalnya dalam puisi "melati":
muhammad pergi ke dalam roti
dan tak kunjung kembali
Jika memang ada penjelasan kenapa sebuah tempat dianalogikan sebagai roti, mungkin lebih bisa terima. Tapi tidak ada kalimat lanjutan yang menjelaskannya. Banyak juga sajak berbentuk dialog dan naskah drama yang memeras otak. Meski demikian masih ada satu dua puisi yang (terjemahannya) cukup mengena. Contohnya dalam puisi "menara masjid" dan paragraf awal "rembulan ghouta". Selebihnya mungkin seperti menikmati lukisan surealis tanpa tau maksudnya. 2.7/5.0.
Misalnya dalam puisi "melati":
muhammad pergi ke dalam roti
dan tak kunjung kembali
Jika memang ada penjelasan kenapa sebuah tempat dianalogikan sebagai roti, mungkin lebih bisa terima. Tapi tidak ada kalimat lanjutan yang menjelaskannya. Banyak juga sajak berbentuk dialog dan naskah drama yang memeras otak. Meski demikian masih ada satu dua puisi yang (terjemahannya) cukup mengena. Contohnya dalam puisi "menara masjid" dan paragraf awal "rembulan ghouta". Selebihnya mungkin seperti menikmati lukisan surealis tanpa tau maksudnya. 2.7/5.0.
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