Judul/Title: The Dance
Penulis/Author: Oriah Mountain Dreamer
Penerbit/Publisher: Element
Edisi/Edition: 2003
Halaman/Pages: 189
Dimensi/Dimension: 13 x 19.5 x 1.5cm
Bahasa/Language: English
Harga/Price: Rp. 148.000
Call No.: 821/Dre/d/C.1
Status: Ada/Available

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ORIAH MOUNTAIN DREAMER is the visionary author of The Invitation, the sensational word-of mouth bestseller. Profound and passionate, the poem traveled across the globe to be read at weddings, funerals and spiritual gatherings.

The Dance picks up where The Invitation left off, taking the ideas deeper. Each chapter explores our ability to open up to the adventure of living, facing love, sorrow and anger, and learning all they have to teach us.

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Judul/Title: The Conference of The Birds
Penulis/Author: Farid Ud-Din Attar
Penerbit/Publisher: Penguin Books
Edisi/Edition: 1984
Halaman/Pages: 234
Dimensi/Dimension: 13 x 20 x 1.5cm
Bahasa/Language: English
Harga/Price: Rp. 161.000
Call No.: 891.5/Att/c/C.1
Status: Ada/Available

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Attar's great mystical poem opens when all the bird of the world gather together to begin the search for an ideal king.

What follows is a marvelous allegorical rendering of sufism -- the secretive and paradoxical form of Islamic mysticism. Like The Caterbury Tales, The Conference of the Birds consists of a group of stories bound together by a pilgrimage. The Way of the sufi is expounded here in tales that are often riddling and sometimes obscure, but full of incident and suspense, laced with quick character sketches and witty vignettes of everyday life in twelfth-century Persia. Above all, though, the poem puts into words themes of love and the search for divine unity; in conveying these Attar' has transformed belief into poetry, much in the same way that Milton or Dante did'.

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Judul/Title: Letters to a Young Poet
Penulis/Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
Penerbit/Publisher: Random House
Edisi/Edition: 1987
Halaman/Pages: 109
Dimensi/Dimension: 10.5 x 17.5 x 1cm
Bahasa/Language: English
Harga/Price: Rp. 115.000
Call No.: 836/Ril/l/C.1
Status: Ada/Available

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Rielke's Letters to a Young Poet are arguably the most famous and beloved letters of our country. Written when the poet was himself still a young man with most of his greatest work before him, they were addressed to a student who had sent Rilke some of his work, asking for device about becoming a writer. The two never met, but over period of several years Rilke wrote him these ten letters, which have been enjoyed by hundreds of thousand of readers for what Stephen Mitchell calls the "vibrant and deeply felt experience of life" that informs them.

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Judul/Title: The Complete Illustrated Stories and Poems
Penulis/Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Penerbit/Publisher: Chancellor Press
Edisi/Edition: 1994
Halaman/Pages: 973
Dimensi/Dimension: 14.5 x 21.5 x 7cm
Bahasa/Language: English
Harga/Price: Rp. 260.000
Call No.: 823 /poe/c/C.1
Status: Ada/Available

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Here in one superb volume are tales, adventures and poems from the world's master of the mysterious Edgar Allan Poe. Famous for his horror stories and brooding poetry, Poe is also the inventor of the modern detective story.

The Complete Tales of Mystery and Imagination contains all of 70 of the remarkable stories of terror and fantasy that established Poe as an outstanding literary craftsman and a great American Author.

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is Poe's only full-lengh work and a masterful blending of science and romance.

The Ravem and Other Poems
reflects Poe's obsession with the macabre and solitude.

The stories are illustrated with line drawings by Arthur Rackham, Aubrey Beardsley, Edouard Manet and others.

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Judul/Title: Opening The Invitation
Penulis/Author: Oriah Mountain Dreamer
Penerbit/Publisher: Harper SanFransisco
Edisi/Edition: I,2004
Halaman/Pages: 102
Dimensi/Dimension: 14 x 21 x 1cm
Bahasa/Language: English
Harga/Price: Rp. 100.000
Call No.: 821/Dre/o/C.1
Status: Ada/Available

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Oriah Mountain Dreamer's beloved poem is beautifully presented here along with the author's reflections on the poem's origin and its remarkable worldwide impact. This is the definitive edition of the signature poem that has touched lives everywhere.

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Judul/Title: Mata mBeling Jeihan
Penulis/Author: Jeihan
Penerbit/Publisher: Grasindo
Edisi/Edition: I, 2000
Halaman/Pages: 148
Dimensi/Dimension: 19 x 25 x 1cm
Bahasa/Language: Indonesia
Harga/Price: Rp. 10.000,-
Call No.: 811/Jei/m/C.1
Status: Ada/Available

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Adalah penyair Leon Agusta, orang yang menganggap perlu mengungkit dan mengangkat kembali peran puisi mBeling yang pernah hadir dan menghebohkan pada tahun 70-an dalam sejarah sastra Indonesia. Hal ini diungkapkannya secara terbuka di Bandung dalam acara "Hari Syukur dan Tafakur", 3 Oktober 1999, di halaman belakang Studio Jeihan. Banyak di antara para hadirin yang tertarik ang dengan hal tersebut. Di antara yang tertarik menulis buku puisi mBeling, khususnya karya Jeihan, adalah Jakob Sumardjo dan Soni Farid Maulana.

Puisi-puisi mBeling Jeihan yang berjumlah 40 buah, ditelah oleh dua pengamat sastra dari dua generasi. Prolog disuguhkan oleh penyair Soni Farid Maulana, serta epilog oleh pengamat sastra Jakob Sumardjo, kawan dekat Jeihan selama lebih dari 25 tahun.

Dua pandangan dari dua generasi yang berbeda ini dapat Anda simak melalui analisis dan kesimpulan mereka masing-masing. Setiap tafsir atas puisi adalah sah-sah saja untuk berbeda, asal semuanya itu ada pertanggungjawaban rasionalitas dengan bukti empirik puisi itu sendiri. Semakin beragam tafsir, semakin meneguhkan kekayaan makna sebuah karya puisi.

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Judul/Title: Surat dari Palmerah: Indonesia dalam Politik Mehong: 1996 - 1999
Penulis/Author: Seno Gumira Ajidarma
Penerbit/Publisher: Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia
Edisi/Edition: I, 2002
Halaman/Pages: 287
Dimensi/Dimension: 17.5 x 22 x 1.5 cm
Bahasa/Language: Indonesia
Harga/Price: 36.000
Call No.: 814/Aji/s/C.1
Status: Ada/Available

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Surat-surat ini ditulis pada masa transisi dalam sejarah politik Indonesia kontemporer, antara 1966-1999, yakni sebelum dan sesudah tergulingnya Orde Baru. Surat-surat ini berbincang tentang etika politik dan masalah sosial budaya, yang merefleksikan situasi kritis dalam kehidupan politik masa itu. Namun pengawasan ketat Departemen Penerangan RI pada masa Orde Baru, maupun ancaman kelompok-kelompok radikal setelah Reformasi, membuat opini wartawan seringkali tidak bisa dinyatakan secara langsung -- dibutuhkan suatu seni untuk mengutarakan pendapat yang sensitif. Itulah yang dirasakan penulisnya, yang setelah musim politik berganti pendapatnya belum berubah: Politik di Indonesia adalah politik mehong.

Esai demi esai memperkaya dan memberi kita pelajaran untuk melihat suatu perkara dari segi yang semula mungkin tak pernah kita perhitungkan. Kita seperti menyelam dalam hidup pribadi Seno yang luas, dalam, dan meriah; dan dari penyelaman itu kita pulang membawa sesuatu. Pendek kata, kita mengorbankan waktu bukan untuk sebuah kesia-siaan.

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Judul/Title: The Prophet
Penulis/Author: Kahlil Gibran
Penerbit/Publisher: Harcourt brace Jovanovich Inc
Edisi/Edition: 1996
Halaman/Pages: 60
Dimensi/Dimension: 12.5 x 2o x 0.5 cm
Bahasa/Language: English
Harga/Price: US$ 7.99
Call No.: 892.7/Gib/p/C.1
Status: Ada/Available

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The Prophet represent the acme of Kahlil Gibran's achievment. Writing in English, Gibran adopted the tone and cadence of King James I's Bible, fusing his personalised Christian philosopy with a spirit and oriental wisdom that derives from the richly mixed influences of his native Lebanon. His language has a breath-taking beauty.

Before returning to his birthplace, Almustafa, the 'prophet', is asked for guidance by the people of Orphalese. His words, redolent with love and understanding, call for universal unity, and affirm Gibran's certainty of the correlated nature of all existence, and reincarnation.

The Prophet has never lost its immidiate appeal and has become a ubiquitous touchstone of spiritual literature.

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Judul/Title: Hujan Bulan Juni
Penulis/Author: Sapardi Djoko Damono
Penerbit/Publisher: Grasindo
Edisi/Edition: 1994
Halaman/Pages: 114
0Dimensi/Dimension: 14x 21 x 0.5cm
Bahasa/Language: Indonesia
Call No.:811 /Dam /h/C.1
Status: Ada/Available

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Sajak-sajak 1971 umumnya adalah sajak-sajak yang bila dibaca penyair lain akan menimbulkan seru, " Mengapa saya tidak menulis seperti itu tentang itu!" Dengan kata lain, merupakan puisi-puisi yang harus (karena layak) dicemburui ... Kata-kata tidak lagi merekat menempel, tetapi bergerak hidup bulat; menjadi tanda dan sekaligus mikrokosmos sendiri.
(Gunawan Mohamad, catatan untuk Mata Pisau)

Agar bisa memahami dengan baik karya Sapardi, kita harus menyadari bahwa ia telah dengan sengaja memilih untuk selalu berada dalam kaitan antara antara ambiguitas dan konvensi puisi. Dalam kenyataannya, ia telah menciptakan genre baru dalam kesusastraan Indonesia, yang sampai kini belum ada nama yang sesuai untuknya... Ia seorang penyair yang orisinal dan kreatif, yang eksperimen-eksperimennya -- inovasi yang sangat mengejutkan dalam segala kesederhanaanya -- mungkin merupakan petunjuk bagi perkembangan di masa mendatang.
(A. Teeuw. Modern Indonesian Literature II)

Indonesia tidak banyak memiliki banyak penyair yang juga akademikus, dan salah seorang yang paling mempesona dan cemerlang adalah Sapardi Djoko Damono ... Puisi-prosanya adalah suatu perkembangan baru, namun senantiasa peka terhadap kualitas imajistik puisi ... perpaduan antara kemungkinan-kemungkinan prosa dan puisi telah memungkinkannya menciptakan suatu bentuk yang luwes, dan ketelitian serta keterampilan yang merupakan ciri kebanyakan sajaknya menunjukkan kepada kita bahwa ia adalah seorang perfeksionis dalam bentuk maupun bahasa.
(Muhammad Hj. Saleh, Walking Westward in The Morning)

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Judul/Title: Zaman Edan
Penulis/Author: Ronggowarsito
Penerbit/Publisher: Bentang Budaya
Edisi/Edition: I, 1998
Halaman/Pages: 176
Dimensi/Dimension: 10.5 x 14 x 0.5 cm
Bahasa/Language: Indonesia
Call No.:133.3 /Ron/z/C.1
Status: Ada/Available

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Hidup di zaman edan
gelap jiwa bingung pikiran
turut edan hati tak tahan
jika tidak turut
batin merana dan penasaran
tertindas dan kelaparan
tapi janji Tuhan sudah pasti
seuntung apa pun orang yang lupa daratan
lebih selamat orang yang menjaga kesadaran

Dalam tradidi kepustakaan Jawa, Ronggowarsito dianggap sebagai pujangga penutup, atau pujangga terakhir. Setelah kematian Ronggowarsito, sudah tidak ada lagi, dan tidak mungkin lagi ada, seorang pujangga. Meskipun sekarang ini masih tetap ada orang-orang yang menulis berbagai karya dalam Bahasa Jawa, mereka hanya para penulis dan bukan pujangga.

Seorang pujangga, menurut tradisi ini, bukan sekadar seorang penulis, melainkan juga memiliki kemampuan dan otoritas menangani persoalan-persoalan dunia spiritual. Kadangkala mereka juga disebut nujum istana. Dalam ekspresi aslinya, pujangga haruslah seorang yang memiliki kemampuan sambegana, kecerdasan dan daya ingat yang kuat, serta nawungkrida, kemampuan menangkap tanda-tanda alam maupun zaman yag tidak diketahui orang biasa.

Kemampuan ini, menurut riwayat, benar-benar dimiliki Ronggowarsito. Dalam hal sambegana, tidak diragukan lagi Ronggowarsito adalah orang yang mumpuni di zamannya dalam ilmu bahasa dan sastra.

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Judul/Title: The Flowers of Evil [Les Felurs du Mal]
Penulis/Author: Charles Baudelaire
Penerbit/Publisher: Oxford University Press
Edisi/Edition: 1993
Halaman/Pages: 399
Dimensi/Dimension: 11.5 x 18.5 x 2cm
Bahasa/Language: French & English
Call No.: 841/Bau/f/C.1
Status: Ada/Available
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The Flowers of Evil, which T.S Elliot called the greatest example of modern poetry in any language, shocked the literary world of the nineteenth-century France with its outspoken portrayal of lesbian love, its linking of sexuality and death, its unremitting irony, and its unflinching celebration of the seamy side of urban life. The volume was seized by the police, and Baudelaire and his publisher were put on trial for offence to public decency. Six offending poems were banned, in a conviction that was not overturned until 1949.

This bold new translation, which restores the banned poems to their original places and reveals the full richness and variety of the collection, make available to English speakers a powerful and original vision of the world. Jonathan Culler's introduction outlines this vision, stressing that Baudelair is more than just the poet of the modern city. Originally to be called "The Lesbians". The Flowers of Evil contains the most extraordinary body of love poetry.

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Judul/Title: To Love, To Wander: The Poetry of Sitor Situmorang
Penulis/Author: Sitor Situmorang
Penerbit/Publisher: Lontar
Edisi/Edition: I, 1996
Halaman/Pages: 169
Dimensi/Dimension: 13 x 21 x 1.5cm
Bahasa/Language: English
Call No.: 811/Sit/l
Status: Ada/Available

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"... I was raised in a traditional environment... I heard sermons in the languages of the Gospel... I heard songs of the people, I heard their music... I was exposed to the poetic ideas and literary forms withput theory. That is how my poetic sensitivity was shaped..."

"... At certain moments in time, I've had inspiration; I've written some poems and so on, in the midst of my daily routine, I've been called a poet. I have felt like I'm living in the world of the poet and yet, at the same time, I am an inseperable part of the world around me. There's never a guarantee that inspiration will come or that the wave of creativity will repeat itself. A poet is constantly torn apart by doubt, by the hope and fear of his expectation that by preparing himself, that by nurturing his sensitivity, he will be ready to write whenever inspiration calls..."

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Judul/Title: Gubahan Pecinta: A Travel Guide
Penulis/Author: Syekh Fattaah
Penerbit/Publisher: Serambi
Edisi/Edition: 2007
Halaman/Pages: 297
Dimensi/Dimension: 20.5cm
Bahasa/Language: Indonesia, English
Call No.: 821/Fat/g
Status: Ada/Available

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Gubahan Pecinta [A Travel Guide] adalah buku berisi syair-syair gubahan Syekh Fattaah. Gubahan ini bukan semata karya seni, melainkan bahasa jiwa yang merangkai seni dalam ikhtiar menuju cinta murni milik Sang Maha Sejati. Inilah ungkapan bahasa sufi yang bergelora penuh makna asmara cinta. Cinta yang dimaksud bukanlah ungkapan perasaan berselaput nafsu dunia, tapi kejernihan yang dapat membedakan siang antara matahari dan sinarnya, membedakan hidup antara jasad dan ruhnya, membedakan hidangan antara aroma dan rasanya, serta membedakan ibadah antara ucapan dan perbuatannya.

Walau kata hanya sebatas kata-kata dan kalimat hanya sebatas ucapan, namun bila lahir dari hati, kata dan kalimat itu akan bersemayam di nurani. Buku ini menghidangkan kalam untuk diterjemahkan oleh nurani bijak para pembaca. Keindahanya terasa bila kita menikmatinya dengan kejernihan hati. Buku ni juga merupakan sarana pendekatan spiritual. Karenanya, bila dibutuhkan dan bila Paduka Maha Pengasih mengizinkan, buku ini dapat menjadi "a travel guide".

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Judul/Title: Crossing The Water: Transitional Poems
Penulis/Author: Sylvia Plath
Penerbit/Publisher: Harper Perennial
Edisi/Edition:
Halaman/Pages: 56
Dimensi/Dimension: 13.5 x 20.5 x 0.5cm
Bahasa/Language: English
Call No.: 821/Pla/c/C.1
Status: Ada/Available

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"...there is such a single-minded purity in her tone and images, living speech which transcends the familiar anguish of the neurotic to take on the blaze and exhilariting candor of one who totally accepts her fate; who, touching rock bottom, rises like phoenix. Wife, mother, poet, all that she was, none of that can compete with her cold, fierce destiny, a world where 'the mirrors are sheeted' and 'fixed stars/Govern a life'. Crossing the Water, a collection of poems written just prior to those in Ariel, while not as astonishing as Sylvia plath's last classic volume, is, nevertheless of immense importance in recording her extraordinary development. One senses on every page a voice coming into its own, the chaos of a lifetime at last getting ready to assume its final, thriumphant shape." -- Kirkus Reviews, 1971--

"...these poems are uniquely transitional. The intense control and the maturity found here are not matched in the earlier, youthful Colossus or in the later, tortured Ariel. This short middle period gives us Plath at her most sophisticated and skilled; there are even occasional flashes of humor and tenderness. But the movement in the final poems os inexorably toward Ariel, away from a somewhat detached vision of likeness [similes abound in the bulk of the poems] to the chaotic power of identity, to the kind of oneness that either destroys or saves the self. The cult feeds on the poet's pathology, loves her risks and her most daring, Ariel poems. Calling Crossing the Water Plath's finest collection might be heresy and is probably wrong; as usual, it would surely say as much about the reader as the poet." -- Antioch Review, 1972

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Judul/Title: Before Dawn: The Poetry of Sapardi Djoko Damono Penulis/Author: John H. McGlynn [ed.]
Penerbit/Publisher: The Lontar Foundation
Edisi/Edition: 2005
Halaman/Pages: 197
Dimensi/Dimension: 13.5 x 21 x 2.5 cm
Bahasa/Language: English
Call No.: 811/Mcg/b/C.1
Status: Ada/Available

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Judul/Title: Goenawan Mohamad : Selected Poems (Puisi Pilihan)
Penulis/Author: Laksmi Pamuntjak
Penerbit/Publisher: Katakita
Edisi/Edition: 2004
Halaman/Pages: 397
Dimensi/Dimension: 15 x 23 x 1.5cm
Bahasa/Language: English/Indonesia
Call No.: 811/Pam/g/C.1
Status: Ada/Available

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Goenawan Mohamad is one of Indonesia's leading poets and essayist. Following the muzzling of the press during the Suharto regime, he founded the Utan Kayu Community, a cultural pocket dedicated to freedom of expression, the arts and intellectual exchange. He is currently based there while remaining a senior editor of Tempo, of which he was chief for nearly 25 years.

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Judul/Title: The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems
Penulis/Author: Jalal al-Din Rumi
Penerjemah/Translator: Coleman Barks
Penerbit/Publisher: Harper
Edisi/Edition: 2001
Halaman/Pages: 425
Dimensi/Dimension: 23.5cm
Bahasa/Language: English
Call No.: 891.55/Rum/s
Status: Ada/Available

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Rumi's delightful yet profound poems have inspired countless people throughout the centuries, and Coleman Barks' exquisite renderings of the thirteenth-century Persian mystic are widely considered the definitive versions for our time. Barks's translations capture the inward exploration and intensity that characterize Rumi's poetry, making this unique voice of mysticism and desire contemporary while remaining trus to the original poems. In these pages you will encounter the essence of Sufism's insights into the experience of love in all its varieties, life's mystery and wonder, and the nature of both humanity and God.

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