With the economy of a proverb and the psychological insight of a
novel, Toon Tellegen's acclaimed sequence Raptors depicts the
dynamics of a family held hostage by the mood-swings and
histrionics of a father, a figure both comic and terrifying,
grotesque and pathetic. Tellegen's mercurial imagination evokes the
dark archetypes of European folklore and reanimates them with a
sophisticated sense of the endless fluidity of relationships, the
instability of interpretation. An improvisation on a theme,
circling back to 'my father' at the start of each poem, Raptors
builds to a story without narrative, its extravagant imaginative
leaps into absurdity held within a framework of tender observation.
Toon Tellegen's translator Judith Wilkinson has worked closely with
the poet to create English poems that capture the startling clarity
and inventiveness of the original Dutch. Raptors has the rewarding
intensity of a modern classic.
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