Beautifully translated from the Dutch by David Colmer, the IMPAC Award-winning translator of Gerbrand Bakker’s The Twin, Hugo Claus’s poems are remarkable for their dexterity, intensity of feeling, and acute intelligence. From the richly associative and referential “Oostakker Poems” to the emotional and erotic outpouring of the “mad dog stanzas” in “Morning, You,” from his interpretations of Shakespeare’s sonnets to a modern adaptation of a Sanskrit masterpiece, this volume reveals the breadth and depth of Claus’s stunning output. Perhaps Belgium’s leading figure of postwar Dutch literature, Claus has long been associated with the avant-garde: these poems challenge conventional bourgeois mores, religious bigotry, and authoritarianism with visceral passion.
- ISBN10 1935744887
- ISBN13 9781935744887
- Publish Date 12 November 2013
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Steerforth Press
- Imprint Archipelago
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 220
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9781935744887