Even Now
Claus, Hugo / Colmer, David / Nooteboom, Cees
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 S...