In a Different Light

by Minhinnick, Robert

• ISBN13: 9781854113139
• ISBN10: 1854113135
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: Seren

Summary

In a Different Light is a groundbreaking collection of work by fourteen poets writing in Dutch, many of whom have made continental reputations, yet await discovery by the English-speaking world. And there are fascinating and rewarding discoveries to be made.The tone is often conversational, and imbued with wry humour, but the subjects are the 'big ones' - death , doubt, alienation - examined through minutely altered perspectives. Yet, as Robert Minhinnick notes in his accompanying essay, this is a poetry surprisingly unmoved by nature, by politics, even by war. Instead, for many of the contributors, language itself has become the subject. In a Different Light reveals the essential differences which characterise Dutch language poetry. Intriguing and enjoyable, this anthology is perhaps the best introduction to poetry in Dutch currently available.Edited by Robert Minhinnick and Rob Schouten.Contributors include H.H ter Balkt, Remco Campert, Hugo Claus, J.Eijkelboom, Anna Enquist, Eva Gerlach, Judith Herzberg, Esther Jansma, Rutger Kopland, Gerrit Kouwenaar, K.Michel, Leonard Nolens, Willem van Toorn and Hans R. Vlek.Translated by James Brockway, P.C Evans, Willem Groenewegen, Lloyd Haft, Francis R. Jones, Shirley Kaufman, Graham Martin, Steve Orlen, Craig Raine, John Scott, Mark Strand, Rina Vergano and Paul Vincent.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 11
Amazed in the Labyrinth	p. 15
In the nothing between two shell craters	p. 22
Winter stands still	p. 24
The last days of summer	p. 25
Time's still open	p. 26
1890: 27-29 July	p. 27
A winter evening	p. 28
So clear it really seldom is, one sees	p. 29
Illegible	p. 30
Friends, the way we sat there that summer	p. 31
Trees/grass/mountains	p. 32
This never-ending reprieve	p. 33
Sound	p. 36
Learn Your Words	p. 37
Garden, Dordrecht Museum	p. 38
From Black Sonnets	p. 39
Empty Church	p. 40
Song	p. 41
All the Tears	p. 42
Change of Prospect	p. 43
Who Writes History	p. 44
Poetry is an Act	p. 46
Sparrows	p. 47
Smashing Something	p. 48
The Hague	p. 49
In a Moment of Depression	p. 50
Mumbling	p. 51
Poet	p. 53
Churches	p. 54
Avignon	p. 55
Invisible	p. 56
Elephant	p. 60
Brother	p. 62
Halloween	p. 64
Ostend	p. 67
Target	p. 70
The Way	p. 71
Sentimental	p. 72
Welcome in The Free World	p. 73
Blue Anemones	p. 75
Between	p. 76
The Heart	p. 77
Song	p. 79
Boxes	p. 80
The Waiting at the Bus-Stop	p. 81
Natzweiler	p. 86
The Fairground	p. 88
Still Life with Golden Plover	p. 89
Thanks to the Things	p. 90
Message of the Isle of Chaos	p. 92
Johnson Brothers Ltd	p. 93
Breughel's Winter	p. 94
When, Where?	p. 95
Father, I See your Face	p. 96
Autistic	p. 97
I Cavalli di Leonardo	p. 98
Michelangelo's David	p. 99
Michelangelo's Cristo Deposto di Croce	p. 100
Translation	p. 102
Fallow Land	p. 103
House	p. 104
Sonsheek, Stereo Photography	p. 105
Landscape with Father	p. 106
Irrgarten	p. 108
Glumdalclitch	p. 109
Lilliput	p. 110
December	p. 111
Hans Memling: Poetrait of a Young Women ...	p. 112
The Poem	p. 113
In Memoriam	p. 114
She Carries a Glass of Water	p. 116
China, June	p. 118
Slim Waist	p. 119
With Beef and an Oil Lamp	p. 120
The Thaw Wind	p. 122
Owl	p. 123
Pig Elegy	p. 124
Nobody	p. 126
Daughter, Daughter (1-4)	p. 127
In the Woods	p. 130
"I am poured out like water"	p. 131
Invasion	p. 132
Poem	p. 133
A New Year	p. 134
River	p. 136
Poetry	p. 138
Conversation with Myself	p. 139
The Busker	p. 140
Passer-By	p. 141
Travel	p. 142
Albatross	p. 143
Numbered	p. 144
Epitaph	p. 145
Newcomer	p. 146
I	p. 147
The Canto of Petrus Romerus	p. 150
Long-stay	p. 151
That Monotheistic Religion	p. 152
Geranium	p. 153
The Sonnet of Angel Pasquelito, Manilla	p. 154
The Ballad of the Beast	p. 155
The Hydrocyanic Blues	p. 157
The Sestertius of Faustina Junior	p. 158
A Short History of Lust	p. 159
Vocabulary	p. 162
Pressure	p. 163
(Metro) Journey	p. 164
Doppelganger	p. 165
Crumb	p. 166
What is Lost	p. 167
Illuminating Things	p. 168
But What of the Ant	p. 169
Often Quite Horizontal	p. 170
Under the Old Eyes of the Night	p. 172
Epilogue	p. 173
Dolores' Wish	p. 174
Florence	p. 175
Papier Mache	p. 176
Transportation	p. 177
Archaeology	p. 178
The Lovers	p. 179
Concerning the Writing of Beautiful Nature Poems	p. 180
Descent	p. 181
-	p. 184
When she awakes	p. 186
Are frogs the canaries	p. 187
-	p. 188
Under the stars	p. 189
(-)	p. 190
Rule of Thumb	p. 191
The hands in the girl	p. 192
(-)	p. 194
The Poets	p. 195
The Translators	p. 197
The Editors	p. 198
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