Even now by Hugo Claus and translated by David Colmer

This is poetry from Netherlands.

Even now by Hugo Claus translated by David Colmer is published by Archipelago Books. This is a Book originally written in Dutch. This was published in 2013.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781935744887E12.

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.

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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