Book record
Iets Anders – Something Else
Ingmar Heytze
Translated from Dutch by Robert Perry
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.
- Published
- 2017
- Publisher
- Dutch Poets Press
- Language
- Dutch
- Country
- Netherlands
- ISBN
- 9780996705615