Poetry
Reading
Muhammad Haji Salleh, poet, editor and translator;
Professor Universiti Sains Malaysia;
2006-2007 Research Fellow, Harvard Yenching Institute
Muhammad Haji Salleh is a poet, critic, editor and translator in Malay
and English. He has published ten collections of poems and thirty-odd
books of criticism and translation, including Beyond the Archipelago
and Romance and Laughter in the Archipelago and has been awarded
the Malaysian Literary Award and the Southeast Asian Literary Prize.
Muhammad Salleh will read from a selection of poems written in and about
Malaysia and Southeast Asia, Europe and the US for the past forty years,
on themes of the collision of cultures, dilemmas of identity, cultural
roots and language and attempts at finding a meaning and a place in between
this clamour of clashes, clichés and civilisations.
(See
http://www.culturebase.net/artist.php?664
for additional background on Muhammad Haji Salleh and his work.)
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