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Greetings
Selected Poems
Hugo Claus Translated from the Dutch by John Irons
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9780151009008 Hardcover
0151009007
$23.00
144pages
Available
Trim Size:
5-5/16 x 8
Copyright Year:
2005
Territory:
US, C, O
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Synopsis |
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The first English-language collection of poems by this major Flemish writer, Greetings contains work from more than six decades of Hugo Claus's career. Uncompromising and irreverent, Claus writes about postwar politics and society, about race and class, love and sex, art and literature. This volume is sure to appeal to anyone interested in the avant-garde of the last half-century-and to anyone interested in poetry that continues to be provocative, pertinent, and compelling.
Year of atrocities, year of cathode-ray tube and stock market report,
Year of milk and honey if you're asleep,
Year that sticks in your stomach if you're awake,
Sweet year, good year for sleepwalkers . . .
Year that freezes the smile.
It was in that year I went to live in a village
with books, a wife and a child
who grows
while I talk about the tigers in the East.
- F R O M " 1 9 6 5 "
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Biography |
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HUGO CLAUS is the author of numerous plays, essays, books of poetry, and novels. He was awarded the Netherlands' most prestigious literary award for his poetry. He has also written, directed, and acted in many films and lives in Antwerp.
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General Subjects |
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Poetry- Continental European
Poetry- General
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Academic Disciplines & Course Studies |
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English Language & Literature- Poetry
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English Language & Literature- World Literature
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First Serial/Second Serial/Reprint: Harcourt
Audio/UK/Translation: Uitgeverij de Bezige Bij
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Rights Information |
Harcourt Books
An imprint ofHarcourt Trade Publishers
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Harcourt Education Company
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