Light Everywhere - Cees Nooteboom

Light Everywhere

Selected Poems

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
194 Seiten
2024
Seagull Books London Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80309-446-5 (ISBN)
18,65 inkl. MwSt
A collection of poems, selected by Nooteboom himself from more than a dozen Dutch books.

Cees Nooteboom is best known in the English-speaking world for his acclaimed novels, essays, and travel writing; however, Nooteboom has always seen himself first and foremost as a poet. He has said, “without poetry my life would be unthinkable.”

The poems in Light Everywhere are presented in reverse chronological order, reflecting the poet’s contemporary perspective on the productivity of more than half a century. The anthology covers his poetic output up to 2013, with an emphasis on his more recent work. New translations of older poems are crafted by award-winning translator David Colmer, lending a consistent voice to the whole collection.

When Nooteboom began writing poetry in the Netherlands in 1956, he was considered an outcast for not abiding by the conventional experimental style popular at the time. Instead, he took to learning from poets abroad, translating work by Wallace Stevens, Eugenio Montale, and Pablo Neruda. Nooteboom’s work is lucid and mysterious, evocative and elusive, and it is fitting that the collection begins and ends with poems of travel, moving back in time from an elderly man’s entanglement and resignation to the detachment and harsh light of youth, with everything in between.

Cees Nooteboom is a poet, novelist, and travel writer, whose works include Rituals, The Following Story, and Lost Paradise. David Colmer has won several translation awards, most notably the PEN Award for his body of work.

Light Everywhere (2012)





Light Everywhere:

Lifelines

Evening

The figure

Trixy

Penobscot

Exile

Night

It

Kozan-ji, myoe meditating

April auf dem lande

The candle

Purgatory

Without an image

Riso amaro

Horace to pollio in 2005

Glove, year, photo

Outside

Recognition

Utopia triumphans

Landscape

Raison d’etre

A trail in white sand





Encounters:

Juarroz

Wittgenstein

Hesiod

Meng Jiao

Shelley

Borges

Descartes

Virgil, fifth eclogue

Ungaretti

Wallace Stevens





Parlando:

Poem





Occasional Poems:

Stolen poem

Poet

Post restante





Bittersweet (2000)





Bittersweet

Picasso, late etchings

Spring

Amsterdam, 1200

Paula Modersohn-Becker, still life, 1905

Fairy tale

The poet Li Ho finds an arrow on the battlefield

Summer

Rilke, painted by Paul Modersohn-Becker, 1906

Distortion

The first photo of god

Solanum dulcamara

Autumn

Noche transfigurada





It Could Be Like That (1999)





Self

Post

Latin





Eye Sight (1989)





Bashō









The Poet and Things:





Lucretius





Duality





Fire





Atoms





Mirror, reflect





Justice culinaire









Eye Sight:





The deception of seeing





What there was to see





The inner eye





The litany of the eye









The Eye’s Sights:





Silesius dreams





Cauda









Paesaggi Narrati (The Landscape Tells the Story) (1982)









Empty quarter





Altiplano









Bait (1982)









Nerval





Elko, Nevada





Snow





Bogotá





Manáos





Traveler





Fin de saison





Cliff





Rock plant





Tree





Scholasticism





Fuji





Friend









Open Like a Shell, Closed Like a Stone (1978)









Rolling stone





Birthday





Nobody





Cries and whispers





Afternoon





Suitcase





Hotels





Last letter





Trainers and leather-dyers, Marrakesh





The death of Aegeus





Homer on Ithaca





Those were the days





The thought









Present, Absent (1970)









Poseidon and Amphitrite, Villa Stabia, Pompeii





The green hunter





T.





Athena, on an aphora painted by Psiax (Brescia)





Nothing at all









Closed Poems (1964)









A rainy part of the country





Golden fiction









The Black Poem (1960)









Jungle





M’hamid, tagounite





Calera y chozas









Notes





Translator’s acknowledgements



















 

Erscheint lt. Verlag 5.9.2024
Übersetzer David Colmer
Verlagsort Greenford
Sprache englisch
Maße 127 x 216 mm
Gewicht 454 g
Themenwelt Literatur Lyrik / Dramatik Lyrik / Gedichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-80309-446-X / 180309446X
ISBN-13 978-1-80309-446-5 / 9781803094465
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