Monk’s Eye by Cees Nooteboom and translated by David Colmer

This is poetry from Netherlands.

Monk’s Eye by Cees Nooteboom translated by David Colmer is published by Seagull Books. This is a Book originally written in Dutch. This was published in 2019.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780857425478E12.

Monk’s Eye, translated from the Dutch by David Colmer, brings Cees Nooteboom’s Dutch-language work into English through Seagull Books. Published in 2019, it is best approached as a book of encounter rather than as a book to solve. Nooteboom’s title suggests attention disciplined by travel, contemplation, and the slow aperture of looking at the world until it changes shape. What I want from a translated poetry library is not only coverage, but temperament: the chance to meet a mind arranging the world differently. This volume does that work. It gives the reader enough ground to enter, then enough strangeness to keep the encounter from becoming merely informational.

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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