Light Everywhere by Cees Nooteboom and translated by David Colmer

This is poetry from Netherlands.

Light Everywhere by Cees Nooteboom translated by David Colmer is published by Seagull Books London Ltd. This is a Book originally written in Dutch. This was published in 2014.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780857421852E12.

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.

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