Rinkeldekinkel by Anthology and translated by Rob Schouten

This is poetry from Netherlands.

Rinkeldekinkel by Anthology translated by Rob Schouten is published by Milkweed Editions. This is a Book originally written in Dutch. This was published in 2021.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781571315335E12.

Rinkeldekinkel is an anthology of Dutch-language poetry, translated and/or selected by Rob Schouten, published by Milkweed Editions in 2021. As an anthology, the book’s title carries a bright ring of sound, asking the reader to hear Dutch not as a neutral vehicle but as a music with edges. Anthologies are useful because they refuse the fantasy that one poet can stand in for a whole language. The pleasure is in the differences: one poem formal, another intimate, one historical, another wildly private. Read this as a field of entrances rather than a final map. It is a volume for comparison, surprise, and the small shock of realizing that a language never has only one voice.

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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