Even Now
  • Published: 15 November 2013
  • ISBN: 9781935744887
  • Imprint: NY Review Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 220
  • RRP: $45.00
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Even Now

Poems by Hugo Claus

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12 Nov 2013
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  • From the author of The Sorrow of Belgium and one of "the first rank of European poets of the late 20th century" (J. M. Coetzee) for the first time in English.

  • Cover art by Hugo Claus -- "Lustful Figures" (1951)

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    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.
    • Published: 15 November 2013
    • ISBN: 9781935744887
    • Imprint: NY Review Books
    • Format: Paperback
    • Pages: 220
    • RRP: $45.00
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    Praise for Even Now

    "I found myself thinking of Donne, Sterne, Cendrars, Bukowski, and Céline all at once. Colmer's translation is uncanny, feels as if every word is the one the poet intended. Yes, here it is! Hugo Claus, a permanent part of our poetic landscape." -- Robert Kelly

    "Claus's work has been called a cosmos in its own right ... Yet this Promethean artist [with] his Burgundian exuberance and prolixity ... is, like W. B. Yeats, capable of stunning simplicity." --The Independent

    "Marked by an uncommon mix of intelligence and passion, in a medium over which Claus has such light-fingered control that art becomes invisible. These poems . . . bring their author into the first rank of European poets of the late 20th century." --J. M. Coetzee

    "The greatest writer of my generation. " --Remco Campert, winner of the P. C. Hooft Prize for Poetry