Light Everywhere

Selected Poems

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

A collection of poems, selected by Nooteboom himself from more than a dozen Dutch books.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.”The poems in Light Everywhere 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 of travel, moving back in time from an elderly man’s entanglement and resignation to the detachment and harsh light of youth, with everything in between.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-10-08
Mått:127 x 216 x 15 mm
Vikt:254 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:194
Förlag:Seagull Books London Ltd
ISBN:9781803094465
Översättare:Colmer, David

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Poesi inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

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.

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"[Nooteboom’s] highest achievement may turn out to be a body of verse in which he reflects with uncompromising clarity on the powers and limitations of art."

Innehållsförteckning

Light Everywhere (2012)Light Everywhere:LifelinesEveningThe figureTrixyPenobscotExileNightItKozan-ji, myoe meditatingApril auf dem landeThe candlePurgatoryWithout an imageRiso amaroHorace to pollio in 2005Glove, year, photoOutsideRecognitionUtopia triumphansLandscapeRaison d’etreA trail in white sandEncounters:JuarrozWittgensteinHesiodMeng JiaoShelleyBorgesDescartesVirgil, fifth eclogueUngarettiWallace StevensParlando:PoemOccasional Poems:Stolen poemPoetPost restanteBittersweet (2000)BittersweetPicasso, late etchingsSpringAmsterdam, 1200Paula Modersohn-Becker, still life, 1905Fairy taleThe poet Li Ho finds an arrow on the battlefieldSummerRilke, painted by Paul Modersohn-Becker, 1906DistortionThe first photo of godSolanum dulcamaraAutumnNoche transfiguradaIt Could Be Like That (1999)SelfPostLatinEye Sight (1989)Bashō The Poet and Things: Lucretius Duality Fire Atoms Mirror, reflect Justice culinaire Eye Sight: The deception of seeing What there was to see The inner eye The litany of the eye The Eye’s Sights: Silesius dreams Cauda Paesaggi Narrati (The Landscape Tells the Story) (1982) Empty quarter Altiplano Bait (1982) Nerval Elko, Nevada Snow Bogotá Manáos Traveler Fin de saison Cliff Rock plant Tree Scholasticism Fuji Friend Open Like a Shell, Closed Like a Stone (1978) Rolling stone Birthday Nobody Cries and whispers Afternoon Suitcase Hotels Last letter Trainers and leather-dyers, Marrakesh The death of Aegeus Homer on Ithaca Those were the days The thought Present, Absent (1970)Poseidon and Amphitrite, Villa Stabia, Pompeii The green hunter T. Athena, on an aphora painted by Psiax (Brescia) Nothing at all Closed Poems (1964) A rainy part of the country Golden fiction The Black Poem (1960) Jungle M’hamid, tagounite Calera y chozas Notes Translator’s acknowledgements