Abstract
Ian Campbell’s poem series about an age-old jacaranda tree in a university courtyard is an artistic venture across three languages: French, Indonesian and English. The series initiated with a French poem composed in 1989, followed by an Indonesian rendition published in the literary section of a newspaper in Bandung, West Java, in 2004, and concluded with an English version. Campbell’s trilingual poetic exploration demonstrates how a single ‘concept,’ or the essence of a poem transfigures when articulated in the languages he is conversant with. His approach is reflective of his work in an earlier issue of PORTAL—Vol. 14, No 1, April 2017—which displayed thematic unity across poems in English, Spanish and Indonesian.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 121-125 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue number | 1-2 |
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| Publication status | Published - Dec 2023 |
Bibliographical note
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- English
- Ian Campbell
- Indonesian
- Jacaranda
- Trilingual Poetics