Nachoem M. Wijnberg by Nachoem M. Wijnberg and translated by David Colmer

This is poetry from Netherlands.

Nachoem M. Wijnberg by Nachoem M. Wijnberg translated by David Colmer is published by New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The. This is a Book originally written in Dutch. This was published in 2022.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781681376523E12.

Nachoem M. Wijnberg, translated by David Colmer, presents the poet almost as an argument for his own singularity: the title is simply the name, as though the book were asking readers to meet the voice directly. Wijnberg’s poems can feel like fables stripped of their expected morals, or philosophical miniatures pretending to be casual speech. That is part of their charm. They do not seem desperate to seduce the reader, yet they keep producing small traps of thought. I would read this volume as a concentrated introduction to a poet who understands how clarity and strangeness can occupy the same room. Colmer’s translations help preserve the odd poise of that intelligence.

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