Light Everywhere (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Seagull Books London Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2014
First published:	February 2014
Authors:	Cees Nooteboom
Dimensions:	223 x 125 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	194
ISBN-13:	978-0-85742-185-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN:	0-85742-185-9
Barcode:	9780857421852

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