Collected Poems: Lucebert by Lucebert and translated by Diane Butterman

This is poetry from Netherlands.

Collected Poems: Lucebert by Lucebert translated by Diane Butterman is published by Green Integer. This is a Collected originally written in Dutch. This was published in 2010.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781557134073E12.

Collected Poems: Lucebert, translated from the Dutch by Diane Butterman, brings Lucebert’s Dutch-language work into English through Green Integer. Published in 2010, it is best approached as collected poems of encounter rather than as a book to solve. Lucebert’s collected work gives the reader not a single mood but an artistic weather front, by turns abrasive, funny, visionary, and socially alert. What I want from a translated poetry library is not only coverage, but temperament: the chance to meet a mind arranging the world differently. This volume does that work. It gives the reader enough ground to enter, then enough strangeness to keep the encounter from becoming merely informational.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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