Puji Lestari

Sutardji Calzoum Bachri's Poet

Do you know about Sutardji Calzoum Bachri? He is a poet in Indonesia. He usually wear brown cloth when he reads a poem in the stage. He was born in Juny,24,1941. He has been can many appreciation for example about Hadiah Sastra ASEAN(1979), Hadiah Seni( 1993), Anugerah Akademi Jakarta(2007). We know about his when we read his poem. He has been graduated from FISIP in Padjajaran University. Many people think that he has unique character when he writes and reads the poem. When he stayed in the stage, he always read a poem with lying down but when we see in this picture he doing it with stand up. It's to be trade mark Sutardji. He said" I never not serious when I made a poem, but I always serious to make it. When I have to stay to read a poem, I think that I can showing it with better. I have to slow, but have a mean". I think, we have to be writer like Sutardji. Start from the little and then become a big writer.