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Light Everywhere
Cees Nooteboom
Translated from Dutch by David Colmer
Light Everywhere, by Cees Nooteboom and translated by David Colmer, feels like the sort of title that risks serenity but probably earns its restlessness. Nooteboom is often a writer of travel, art, memory, and philosophical attention, and in a poetry collection that breadth can become a way of asking how much of the visible world a sentence can hold. I would not read the light here as simple consolation. Light can reveal, flatten, expose, bless, or make distance sharper. Colmer’s translation brings Nooteboom’s Dutch into English with the steadiness needed for meditative work. This is a book for readers who like poems that seem to walk through museums, cities, ruins, and thought without entirely settling in any one of them.
- Published
- 2014
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd
- Language
- Dutch
- Country
- Netherlands
- ISBN
- 9780857421852