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In Search of Marble MonumentsThe Wandering Poems of Chairil Anwar

In Search of Marble MonumentsThe Wandering Poems of Chairil Anwar The Indonesian poet Chairil Anwar (1922–49) appears to have known it all along: his poems, evoking loneliness and failed communication, written in a self-proclaimed new language, were to remain incomplete and unfinished. Incomplete because they were to be read again and again long after the Indonesian National Revolution had achieved its primary aim, political independence of the Republic of Indonesia, heir of the Dutch Empire; unfinished because they were to be published again and again, every printing and every reading creating other poems. The marble monuments of Indonesian culture of which Chairil was dreaming—polished and stable—never materialized. Perhaps only his last poem, in which a formally balanced description of the sociocultural life of the novel Republic was substituted for the evocations of loneliness and failure, seems to confirm his dream: it has rarely been published and became only a reluctant topic of Indonesian conversations in the new century, while the shadows of the Dutch empire and the revolution are fading, and the search for monuments remains incomplete. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png positions Duke University Press

In Search of Marble MonumentsThe Wandering Poems of Chairil Anwar

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The Indonesian poet Chairil Anwar (1922–49) appears to have known it all along: his poems, evoking loneliness and failed communication, written in a self-proclaimed new language, were to remain incomplete and unfinished. Incomplete because they were to be read again and again long after the Indonesian National Revolution had achieved its primary aim, political independence of the Republic of Indonesia, heir of the Dutch Empire; unfinished because they were to be published again and again, every printing and every reading creating other poems. The marble monuments of Indonesian culture of which Chairil was dreaming—polished and stable—never materialized. Perhaps only his last poem, in which a formally balanced description of the sociocultural life of the novel Republic was substituted for the evocations of loneliness and failure, seems to confirm his dream: it has rarely been published and became only a reluctant topic of Indonesian conversations in the new century, while the shadows of the Dutch empire and the revolution are fading, and the search for monuments remains incomplete.

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Published: Feb 1, 2021

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  • Hoppla!!
    Anwar, Chairil
  • Aku Berkisar Antara Mereka” (“I Revolve Around the Others”)
    Anwar, Chairil
  • Buat Mirat” (“For Mirat”)
    Anwar, Chairil
  • Jang Terampas dan Jang Luput” (“What Is Captured and What Escapes”)
    Anwar, Chairil
  • Jang Terampas dan Jang Luput
    Anwar, Chairil
  • Jang Terampas dan Jang Putus” (“What Is Captured and What Is Broken”)
    Anwar, Chairil
  • Untitled
    Anwar, Chairil
  • Jang Terampas dan Jang Putus
    Anwar, Chairil
  • Jang Terampas dan Jang Putus
    Anwar, Chairil
  • Pidato Radio 1946” (“1946 Radio Speech”)
    Anwar, Chairil Jassin, H. B.
  • Bakhtin on Poetry
    Eskin, Michael
  • Kota, Waktu, Puisi” (“City, Time, Poetry”)
    Mohamad, Goenawan
  • Sobekan dari orang tak berasal
    Sani, Asrul
  • Suatu sore gerimis di Bogor, 28 April, 1949” (“An Afternoon of Drizzle in Bogor, April 28, 1949”)
    Sani, Asrul
  • Larasati
    Toer, Pramoedya Ananta
  • Hoppla!!
    Anwar, Chairil
  • Aku Berkisar Antara Mereka” (“I Revolve Around the Others”)
    Anwar, Chairil
  • Buat Mirat” (“For Mirat”)
    Anwar, Chairil
  • Jang Terampas dan Jang Luput” (“What Is Captured and What Escapes”)
    Anwar, Chairil
  • Jang Terampas dan Jang Luput
    Anwar, Chairil
  • Jang Terampas dan Jang Putus” (“What Is Captured and What Is Broken”)
    Anwar, Chairil
  • Untitled
    Anwar, Chairil
  • Jang Terampas dan Jang Putus
    Anwar, Chairil
  • Jang Terampas dan Jang Putus
    Anwar, Chairil
  • Pidato Radio 1946” (“1946 Radio Speech”)
    Anwar, Chairil Jassin, H. B.
  • Bakhtin on Poetry
    Eskin, Michael
  • Kota, Waktu, Puisi” (“City, Time, Poetry”)
    Mohamad, Goenawan
  • Sobekan dari orang tak berasal
    Sani, Asrul
  • Suatu sore gerimis di Bogor, 28 April, 1949” (“An Afternoon of Drizzle in Bogor, April 28, 1949”)
    Sani, Asrul
  • Larasati
    Toer, Pramoedya Ananta