Advance Payment by Nachoem M Wijnberg and translated by David Colmer

This is poetry from Netherlands.

Advance Payment by Nachoem M Wijnberg translated by David Colmer is published by Carcanet Press Ltd.. This is a Book originally written in Dutch. This was published in 2013.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780856464508E12.

Advance Payment, by Nachoem M. Wijnberg and translated by David Colmer, has the feel of a mind testing the moral weight of ordinary propositions. Wijnberg’s poems often seem to begin from something nearly plain, even procedural, and then open into a stranger field of exchange, obligation, memory, or consequence. The title is wonderfully dry: an economic phrase that becomes lyric pressure. What has already been paid? What kind of debt does a poem create before we know what it is asking from us? I like poetry that can make thought feel dramatic without announcing itself as dramatic, and this book sits in that zone. It is philosophical without becoming airless, restrained without being cold.

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