Book record
Even now
Hugo Claus
Translated from Dutch by David Colmer
Even now, translated from the Dutch by David Colmer, brings Hugo Claus's Dutch-language work into English through Archipelago Books. Published in 2013, it is best approached as a book of encounter rather than as a book to solve. Claus’s title has the late pressure of continuation, as if lyric speech can still arrive after history, after damage, after the expected moment has passed. A useful way into the book is to listen for what the translation makes possible: not a perfect replacement of the original, but a new body of sound. The poems carry Netherlands into English without becoming a cultural brochure. They ask for attention, and they reward the reader who lets uncertainty remain useful.
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- Archipelago Books
- Language
- Dutch
- Country
- Netherlands
- ISBN
- 9781935744887