A stunning selection of poems from the great twentieth-century Dutch poet.
Against the Forgetting presents the work of an important twentieth-century Dutch poet, Hans Faverey. The first extensive selection of his poetry in English, this collection brings together poems from his eight published volumes of poetry spanning the years 1968 to 1990—the last volume, Default, he received only two days before his death. In addition, a selection of poems from a posthumous collection, Spring Foxes, first published in Holland in 2000, is also included. The translator Francis Jones writes, "Hans Faverey left behind a poetic structure of uniquely subtle richness and beauty, made from so little—a few words, surrounded by silence." Filled with a precision and arresting musicality comparable to the hermetic poems of Celan and Bronk, and as mysterious as the writings of Heraclitus and the German mystic Meister Eckhart, Faverey's poems, like Lichtenberg's lightning frozen in time, lash out, splintering systems and syntax—enlightening.
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A real find among the extensive list of European poets being translated into English. -- The Bloomsbury Review, November/December 2004
Jones carefully reproduces Faverey's accumulative linguistic patterns....this book...has a coherence unusual in a 'selected poems.' -- Matthea Harvey, Bomb, Spring 2004
The purest poetic intelligence of his generation, the author of poems of lapidary beauty. -- J. M. Coetzee
Jones carefully reproduces Faverey's accumulative linguistic patterns....this book...has a coherence unusual in a 'selected poems.' -- Matthea Harvey, Bomb, Spring 2004
The purest poetic intelligence of his generation, the author of poems of lapidary beauty. -- J. M. Coetzee
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Dutch --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Original Language: Dutch --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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- Comparative Criticism: Volume 16, Revolutions and Censorship by E. S. Shaffer in Front Matter
- Footnotes: Six Choreographers Inscribe the Page (Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture) by Elena Alexander on page 19
- Turning Tides: Modern Dutch & Flemish Verse in English Versions by Irish Poets by Peter van de Kamp in Back Matter
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