Light Everywhere: Selected Poems - Couverture rigide

Nooteboom, Cees

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0857421859 ISBN 13 : 9780857421852

Editeur : Seagull Books London Ltd, 2014

Synopsis

Cees Nooteboom is best known in the English-speaking world for his acclaimed novels, essays, and travel writing; however, Nooteboom has always seen himself first and foremost as a poet. He has said, "without poetry my life would be unthinkable." Light Everywhere is a collection of poems, selected by Nooteboom himself from more than a dozen Dutch books. The poems are presented in reverse chronological order, reflecting the poet's contemporary perspective on the productivity of more than half a century. The anthology covers his poetic output up to 2013, with an emphasis on his more recent work. New translations of older poems are crafted by award-winning translator David Colmer, lending a consistent voice to the whole collection. When Nooteboom began writing poetry in the Netherlands in 1956, he was considered an outcast for not abiding by the conventional experimental style popular at the time. Instead he took to learning from poets abroad, translating work by Wallace Stevens, Eugenio Montale, and Pablo Neruda. Nooteboom's work is lucid and mysterious, evocative and elusive, and it is fitting that the collection begins and ends with poems about travel, moving back in time from an elderly man's entanglement and resignation to the detachment and harsh light of youth and everything in between.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Cees Nooteboom is a poet, novelist, and travel writer whose works include Rituals, The Following Story, and Lost Paradise. David Colmer has won several translation awards, most notably the PEN Award for his body of work.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Seagull Books London Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0857421859
• ISBN 13: 9780857421852
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 194
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