Poems are artistic artifacts of a poet at a moment of time, which gives colour and slant to it. A poet writing in two languages is still a single poet. However he has two rivers flowing within him. If he feels that he should take a boat and row down one of them, the poems may be in Malay but if he choose the other, then it would be in English. The person is the same and so are the experiences and the cumulative life. Yet language does not merely colour the expression of the poems but lends its special nature and character, though not totally excluding the influences of the other. Malay is a musical language, in which the meaning is traditionally spun by the metaphors and the alliteration. The great play of poetry is in timbre of the sounds and the subtle meaning they evoke. In comparison English is more direct and practical, but lends itself to so many styles and experiments. Rowing Down Two Rivers is a collection of Muhammad Haji Salleh's original English poems, which first appeared in Times and its People, and a translation of selected works from his eight Malay Books.MUHAMMAD HAJI SALLEH. Ph. D., formerly a professor at the Department of Malay Letters, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. In 1991 he was bestowed the Anugerah Sasterawan Negara, the National Award for his contribution to Malay Literature. Currently he is professor of literature in the School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia. He has read his poem in many countries of Asia, Europe, and the United State of America. To date he has published nine books of poems, two of them with Penerbit UKM Buku Perjalanan si Tenggang ii (1975) and Dari Seberang Diri (1982)

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