Iets Anders – Something Else by Ingmar Heytze and translated by Robert Perry

This is poetry from Netherlands.

Iets Anders – Something Else by Ingmar Heytze translated by Robert Perry is published by Dutch Poets Press. This is a Book originally written in Dutch. This was published in 2017.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780996705615E12.

Iets Anders – Something Else, by Ingmar Heytze and translated by Robert Perry, sounds like a book already shrugging its way into possibility. The bilingual title has a lovely modesty to it: something else, not the grand declaration, not the final answer, but the other angle from which a poem may begin. Heytze’s work is often associated with a public, accessible Dutch lyric mode, and this edition seems likely to serve readers who want contemporary poetry that can speak plainly without losing wit or inwardness. I like the idea of a poem as a small adjustment in perception, a way of saying that whatever you thought you were looking at may have another life beside it.

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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