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Paper Aeroplane: Selected Poems 1989-2014 by Simon Armitage

Paper Aeroplane: Selected Poems 1989-2014 by Simon Armitage is the essential selection of poems from one of Britain’s foremost contemporary poets.

When Simon Armitage burst on to the poetry scene in 1989 with his spectacular debut Zoom!, readers were introduced to an exceptional new talent who would reshape the landscape of contemporary poetry in the years to come.

Twenty-five years on, Simon Armitage’s reputation as one of the nation’s most original, most respected and best-loved poets seems secure. Paper Aeroplane: Poems 1989-2014 is the author’s own selection from across a quarter-century of work, from his debut to the latest, uncollected work. Drawing upon all of his award-winning poetry collections, including Kid, Book of Matches, The Universal Home Doctor and Seeing Stars, this generous selection provides an essential gathering of this most thrilling of poets, and is key reading for students and general readers alike.

Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire and is Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds. A recipient of numerous prizes and awards, he has published twelve collections of poetry, including Seeing Stars (2010), The Unaccompanied (2017), Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic (2019) and his acclaimed translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2007). He writes extensively for television and radio, and is the author of two novels and the non-fiction bestsellers All Points North (1998), Walking Home (2012) and Walking Away (2015). His theatre works include The Last Days of Troy, performed at Shakespeare’s Globe in 2014. In 2015 he was appointed Professor of Poetry at Oxford University and in 2018 he was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry. Simon Armitage is Poet Laureate of the UK.

Paper Aeroplane: Selected Poems 1989-2014
by Simon Armitage (Author), Sue Roberts (Author)
2014/2015
Hardback Price £14.99
Paperback Price £10.99
Pages: 248pp
Publisher: Faber and Faber Poetry
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0571310699
ISBN-13: 978-0571310692

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Selected Poems 1989-2014
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Blandine Rinkel: Le nom secret des choses

Tu avais l’âge de quitter ton enfance, l’âge où on se sent libre et où, dans le train pour Paris, on s’assoit dans le sens de la marche.

Dès ton arrivée, tu t’es sentie obligée de devenir quelqu’un d’autre. Quelqu’un qui n’oserait plus dire « je ne sais pas ». C’était la ville qui t’imposait ça, dans ce qu’elle avait à tes yeux de violent et de désirable : sa culture .
Puis tu as rencontré Elsa.
Elle avait le goût des métamorphoses.

Blandine Rinkel (1991) est une journaliste, musicienne et écrivaine française.

Après des études de lettres et de philosophie, elle intègre la classe d’écriture de l’ENSATT et la quitte pour l’EHESS. En parallèle, elle écrit portraits et critiques littéraires pour la presse écrite (Le Matricule des Anges, Gonzai, Brain Magazine, Inferno, France Inter, Citizen K…) et imagine des fictions radiophoniques.

Blandine Rinkel a fait une entrée en littérature très remarquée avec L’abandon des prétentions , paru chez Fayard en 2017. Le nom secret des choses est son deuxième roman.

Le nom secret des choses
Blandine Rinkel
Editeur : Fayard
Collection : Littérature Française
Langue : Français
Paru le: 21 Août 2019
Format: 135 x 215 mm
Broché : 304 pages
ISBN-10 : 2213712905
Prix : 19.00 €

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Blandine Rinkel

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Death Blossoms. Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience, Expanded Edition by Mumia Abu-Jamal

Profound meditations on life, death, freedom, family, and faith, written by radical Black journalist, Mumia Abu-Jamal, while he was awaiting his execution.

During the spring of 1996, black journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal was living on death row and expecting to be executed for a crime he steadfastly maintained he did not commit—the murder of a white Philadelphia police officer. It was in that period, with the likelihood of execution looming over him, that he received visits from members of the Bruderhof spiritual community––refugees from Hitler’s Germany––anti-fascist, anti-racist, and deeply opposed to the death penalty. Inspired by the encounters, Mumia hand-wrote Death Blossoms—a series of short essays and personal vignettes reflecting on his search for spiritual meaning, freedom, and truth in a deeply racist and materialistic society.

Featuring a new introduction by Mumia and a report by Amnesty International detailing how his trial was “in violation of minimum international standards,” this new edition of Death Blossoms is essential reading for the Black Lives Matter era, and is destined to endure as a classic in American prison literature.

“In this revised edition of his groundbreaking work, Death Blossoms, convicted death row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal tackles hard and existential questions, searching for God and a greater meaning in a caged life that may be cut short if the state has its way and takes his life. As readers follow Mumia’s journey through his poems, short essays, and longer musings, they will learn not only about this singular individual who has retained his humanity despite the ever present threat of execution, but also about themselves and our society: what we are willing to tolerate and who we are willing to cast aside. If there is any justice, Mumia will prevail in his battle for his life and for his freedom.”––Lara Bazelon, author of Rectify: The Power of Restorative Justice After Wrongful Conviction

“Mumia Abu-Jamal has challenged us to see the prison at the center of a long history of US oppression, and he has inspired us to keep faith with ordinary struggles against injustice under the most terrible odds and circumstances. Written more than two decades ago, Death Blossoms helps us to see beyond prison walls; it is as timely and as necessary as the day it was published.”––Nikhil Pal Singh, founding faculty director of the NYU Prison Eduction Program, author of Race and America’s Long War.

Title: Death Blossoms
Subtitle: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience, Expanded Edition
Author: Mumia Abu-Jamal
Foreword: Cornel West
Introduction by Mumia Abu-Jamal
Preface by Julia Wright
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
Tags: African American history, black lives matter, black panther party, death row, injustice, institutional injustice, mass incarceration, prison industrial complex, prison writing, racial injustice, U.S. political prisoners, white supremacy
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10 0872867978
ISBN-13 9780872867970
Publication Date; 12 November 2019
Main content page count 240
List Price $16.95

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Death Blossoms
Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience

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Joris-Karl Huysmans: Aan de vrouw

Na een avond uit met zijn beste vriend Cyprien betrapt André zijn vrouw Berthe op overspel. Vernederd, woedend en verdrietig verlaat hij de echtelijke woning.

Wat te doen? Met Cyprien praat hij veelvuldig over de beslommeringen van het huwelijk en het leven van alleenstaanden in een grote stad. Moet André zijn huwelijk proberen te redden, misschien zelf een buitenechtelijke relatie aangaan, of de voorkeur geven aan eenzaamheid?

In de klassieker Aan de vrouw uit 1881 portretteert Huysmans het huiselijke, kleinburgerlijke leven met veel ironie en zwarte humor, evenals het verarmde kunstenaarsmilieu waarin de schrijver André en de schilder Cyprien zich bewegen. Een verrassend tijdloos verhaal over de eeuwige strijd tussen de seksen, over de sleur van een huwelijk, relaties en seksualiteit. Verkiezen André en Cyprien uiteindelijk het burgerlijk bestaan boven hun artistieke ambities en vrijheid?

Met een nawoord door vertalers Martin de Haan & Rokus Hofstede en een voorwoord door fin-de-siècle-expert Sander Bink.

Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848-1907) was een Franse auteur. Hij schreef Aan de vrouw (En ménage) in 1881, drie jaar voor zijn bekendste werk verscheen: Tegen de keer (À rebours, 1884). Joris-Karl Huysmans is een van de favoriete auteurs van Michel Houellebecq.

Aan de vrouw
Joris-Karl Huysmans
Oorspronkelijke titel: En ménage
Vertaling: Rokus Hofstede
Uitgever: Lebowski
ISBN: 9789048841936
Verschenen: 05-09-2019
Paperback
304 blz.
€ 21.99

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New Kings of the World: Dispatches from Bollywood, Dizi, and K-Pop by Fatima Bhutto

A vast cultural movement is emerging from outside the Western world. Truly global in its range and allure, it is the biggest challenge yet to Hollywood, McDonald’s, blue jeans, and other aspects of American mass-produced popular culture. This is a book about the new arbiters of mass culture ―India’s Bollywood films, Turkey’s soap operas, or dizi, and South Korea’s pop music.

Carefully packaging not always secular modernity, combined with traditional values, in urbanized settings, they have created a new global pop culture that strikes a deeper chord than the American version, especially with the many millions who are only just arriving in the modern world and still negotiating its overwhelming changes.

Fatima Bhutto, an indefatigable reporter and vivid writer, profiles Shah Rukh Khan, by many measures the most popular star in the world; goes behind the scenes of Magnificent Century, Turkey’s biggest dizi, watched by more than 200 million people across 43 countries; and travels to South Korea to see how K-Pop started. Bhutto’s book is an important dispatch from a new, multipolar order that is taking form before our eyes.

Fatima Bhutto was born in Kabul, Afghanistan and grew up between Syria and Pakistan. She is the author of five previous books of fiction and nonfiction. Her debut novel, The Shadow of the Crescent Moon, was long listed for the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction and the memoir about her father’s life and assassination, Songs of Blood and Sword, was published to acclaim. Her most recent book is The Runaways, a novel.
She graduated from Barnard with a degree in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures and has a masters in South Asian Government and politics from SOAS.

New Kings of the World: Dispatches from Bollywood, Dizi, and K-Pop
by Fatima Bhutto
Product details
Paperback: 206 pages
Publisher: Columbia Global Reports
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1733623701
ISBN-13: 978-1733623704
Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.8 x 7.8 inches
#68 in Communication & Media Studies
#110 in Popular Culture in Social Sciences
#132 in Pop Culture Art
Price: $15.99
E-Book price: $15.99
E-book ISBN: 978-1-7336237-1-1
On Sale: September 24, 2019
Pages: 207

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Assemblages Wijnand van Lieshout # Tentoonstelling in Tilburg

 

Assemblages Wijnand van Lieshout: Tentoonstelling ‘Wagon-Lits-Expresse’ in het ‘Metropolitan Museum | Tilburg’

Wijnand van Lieshout, de nestor onder de Tilburgse kunstenaars, toont recent werk in de raamtentoonstellingen aan de Stedekestraat (‘Metropolitan Museum | Tilburg’). Zijn tentoonstelling ‘Wagon-Lits-Expresse’ loopt nog tot en met vrijdag 30 november 2019 en is dag en nacht bereikbaar.

 

Wijnand van Lieshout maakt absurde assemblages van antieke rekwisieten, in onmin geraakte gebruiksvoorwerpen en geconserveerde delen van beesten, met name schaal- en schelpdieren. Hij gebruikt geteisterde objecten, zoals oude gereedschappen, afgedankte medische voorwerpen en ontluisterde meubelen. Wijnand van Lieshout is gefascineerd door het verval in al zijn hoedanigheden. Deze teloorgang wordt uitgedrukt door de dikke lagen stof die zijn kunstwerken sieren. Zijn werk is erotisch getint en uiterst theatraal, volgens de kunstenaar: ‘Een wal van verpaupering treedt u tegemoet!’

 

De tentoonstelling bestaat uit tien nieuwe werken. Eén werk is hier helemaal op zijn plaats, het is namelijk geïnspireerd door het leven van een novice achter slot en grendel in het voormalige Clarissenklooster om de hoek. Een ander werk, ‘Vrouw van Neptunus’, is een magistraal werk, waarin een zeenimf zich te goed doet aan een aangespoelde dildo. De overige werken zijn navenant, absurd, tragikomisch en wentelend in de onuitputtelijke fantasie van de oude meester kunstenaar.

 

Wijnand van Lieshout (1940) is een geboren en getogen Tilburger. Hij volgde hier zijn kunstopleiding aan de ‘R.K. Leergangen’ vanaf 1957, studeerde verder aan de ‘Jan van Eijck Academie’ in Maastricht en het ‘Nationaal Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunsten’ in Antwerpen. In 1970 keerde hij terug naar zijn geboortestad, waar hij zich toelegde op geënsceneerde fotografie, installaties en assemblages. Van Lieshout exposeerde o.a. samen met Erwin Olof in Amsterdam, met Niko de Wit in Tilburg, in het ‘Noordbrabants Museum’ in Den Bosch en reizende tentoonstellingen in België, Duitsland en Japan. Nu te zien in het ‘Metropolitan Museum – Tilburg’ aan de Stedekestraat’. Belangstellenden zijn van harte welkom!

   

Praktische gegevens: gratis raamtentoonstelling ‘Wagon-Lits-Expresse’ van Wijnand van Lieshout, dagelijks 1 november t/m 30 november 2019 in het ‘Metropolitan Museum | Tilburg’, Stedekestraat 15 | 5041DM Tilburg, telefoon 013 5358041 | 06 20325030, mail post@metropolitanmuseum.nl, site www.metropolitanmuseum.nl

 

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM | TILBURG
15 Stedekestraat | 5041DM Tilburg | Netherlands
www.metropolitanmuseum.nl

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# photos – text – movie: Sjon Brands & Dorith van der Lee / Metropolitan Museum – Tilburg

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Ludwig Bechstein: Die schöne junge Braut (Märchen)

Die schöne junge Braut

Es ging einmal ein hübsches Landmädchen in den Wald, um Futter für ihre Kuh zu holen; wie sie nun in Gottes Namen grasete und an gar nichts Arges dachte, so kamen auf einmal vier Räuber, umringten sie und führten sie mit sich fort, ohne Gnad und Barmherzigkeit, sie mochte schreien und zappeln, bitten und betteln so viel sie wollte. Weit ab von des Mädchens Heimat in einem finstern Walde hatten die Räuber ein Haus, worin sie sich aufhielten, wenigstens blieben immer einige daheim, wenn die andern auf Raub auszogen. Dem Mädchen taten aber die Räuber weiter nichts zu Leide, als daß sie sie eben aus ihrer Heimat fortführten, und sie in dem Hause gleichsam gefangen hielten; sie mußte den Haushalt besorgen, kochen, backen und waschen, sonst hatte sie es gut, wurde aber immer scharf bewacht. Dabei hatten ihr die Räuber den Namen gegeben: Schöne junge Braut.

So war nun das Mädchen schon einige Jahre in der Räuberherberge, als es sich einmal traf, daß ein Hauptraub ausgeführt werden sollte, an dem, wenn er gelingen sollte, die ganze helle Bande teilnehmen mußte.

Da das Mädchen sich an das Leben in der Räuberhöhle gewöhnt zu haben schien, auch noch keinen Versuch zu entfliehen gemacht hatte, und auch schwerlich durch den wilden Wald die Wege finden würde – so dachte der Hauptmann – so blieb sie diesesmal allein und unbewacht im Waldhause zurück. Aber die Räuber waren kaum fort, so sann die schöne Braut darauf, wie sie unerkannt entfliehen könne. Sie machte geschwind eine Gestalt von Stroh, zog derselben ihre Kleider an, setzte ihr ihre Haube auf, sich selbst aber bestrich sie von Kopf bis zu den Füßen mit Honig, wälzte sich darauf über und über in Federn, so daß sie ganz unkennbar wurde, und aussah, wie ein seltsamer Vogel. Die Gestalt in ihren Kleidern lehnte sie an ein Fenster über der Haustür, und ließ sie hinaussehen, doch mit verdecktem Gesicht, und dann eilte sie von dannen.

Mochte es aber nun sein, daß dem Hauptmann eine Ahnung von des Mädchens beabsichtigter Flucht kam, oder daß etwas vergessen worden war, genug, er sandte einige seiner Räuber nach dem Hause zurück, und gerade mußte es sich treffen, daß ihnen auf ihrem Wege das fiedrige Käuzlein aufstieß. Sie dachten aber es wäre einer ihrer Kumpane, der sich unkenntlich gemacht hätte, und riefen die Gestalt lachend und fragend an:

»Wohin, wohin, Herr Federsack?
Was macht die schöne junge Braut?«

Diese, die es selbst war, war zwar sehr erschrocken, doch faßte sie sich ein Herz und antwortete mit verstellter Stimme:

»Sie fegt und säubert unser Haus
Und schaut wohl auch zum Fenster heraus!«

Damit machte sie, daß sie den Räubern aus dem Gesichte kam, kam auch glücklich aus dem Walde, erreichte ein Dorf, kaufte sich Kleider, badete sich und erlangte glücklich und wohlbehalten, obschon nach langer Wanderung, ihre Heimat wieder, und da sie nicht gerade das Beste in der Räuberherberge zurückgelassen hatte, sondern für ihren Jahrlohn mitgehen heißen, so hatte sie auch wohl zu leben und heiratete einen wackern Burschen.

Jene Räuber, wie die nun des Hauses ansichtig wurden, sahen die Gestalt der schönen jungen Braut am Fenster und grüßten schon von weitem, indem sie riefen:

»Grüß Gott, o schöne junge Braut,
Die freundlich uns entgegenschaut.«

Da aber der Gruß unerwidert blieb, so verwunderten sich die Räuber, und als sie näher kamen, vermeinten sie, die schöne junge Braut sei eingeschlafen. Vergebens riefen sie, sie ermunterte sich nicht; vergebens geboten sie ihr, zu öffnen, alle ihr Pochen und Schreien, Rufen und Schelten war erfolglos, und wütend traten sie zuletzt die Türe in Trümmern, stürmten die Treppe hinauf und faßten die Gestalt der schönen jungen Braut hart an, da fiel ihnen die Strohpuppe in die Arme. Da riefen die Räuber:

»Fahr wohl, du schöne junge Braut!
Ein Tor ist, wer auf Weiber baut!«

Ludwig Bechstein
(1801 – 1860)
Die schöne junge Braut
Sämtliche Märchen

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Sontag. Her Life and Work by Benjamin Moser

Susan Sontag

The definitive portrait

The definitive portrait of one of the American Century’s most towering intellectuals: her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her hidden private face

No writer is as emblematic of the American twentieth century as Susan Sontag. Mythologized and misunderstood, lauded and loathed, a girl from the suburbs who became a proud symbol of cosmopolitanism, Sontag left a legacy of writing on art and politics, feminism and homosexuality, celebrity and style, medicine and drugs, radicalism and Fascism and Freudianism and Communism and Americanism, that forms an indispensable key to modern culture.

She was there when the Cuban Revolution began, and when the Berlin Wall came down; in Vietnam under American bombardment, in wartime Israel, in besieged Sarajevo. She was in New York when artists tried to resist the tug of money—and when many gave in. No writer negotiated as many worlds; no serious writer had as many glamorous lovers.

Sontag tells these stories and examines the work upon which her reputation was based. It explores the agonizing insecurity behind the formidable public face: the broken relationships, the struggles with her sexuality, that animated—and undermined—her writing. And it shows her attempts to respond to the cruelties and absurdities of a country that had lost its way, and her conviction that fidelity to high culture was an activism of its own.

Utilizing hundreds of interviews conducted from Maui to Stockholm and from London to Sarajevo—and featuring nearly one hundred images—Sontag is the first book based on the writer’s restricted archives, and on access to many people who have never before spoken about Sontag, including Annie Leibovitz. It is a definitive portrait—a great American novel in the form of a biography.

Benjamin Moser was born in Houston. He is the author of Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector, a finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award and a New York Times Notable Book. For his work bringing Clarice Lispector to international prominence, he received Brazil’s first State Prize for Cultural Diplomacy. He has published translations from French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch. A former books columnist for Harper’s Magazine and The New York Times Book Review, he has also written for The New Yorker, Conde Nast Traveler, and The New York Review of Books.

Sontag
Her Life and Work
By Benjamin Moser
Hardcover: 832 pages
Illustrated
Language: English
Ecco/HarperCollins Publishers
September 17, 2019
ISBN-10: 0062896393
ISBN-13: 978-0062896391
$39.99.

Benjamin Moser:
Sontag – Haar leven en werk.
Uit het Engels vertaald door
Koos Mebius en Lidwien Biekmann.
De Arbeiderspers;
816 pagina’s;
€ 49,99.

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Kerouac on Record. A Literary Soundtrack

Kerouac on Record.

A Literary Soundtrack

 

He was the leading light of the Beat Generation writers and the most dynamic author of his time, but Jack Kerouac also had a lifelong passion for music, particularly the mid-century jazz of New York City, the development of which he witnessed first-hand during the 1940s with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk to the fore.

 

The novelist, most famous for his 1957 book On the Road, admired the sounds of bebop and attempted to bring something of their original energy to his own writing, a torrent of semi-autobiographical stories he published between 1950 and his early death in 1969. Yet he was also drawn to American popular music of all kinds – from the blues to Broadway ballads – and when he came to record albums under his own name, he married his unique spoken word style with some of the most talented musicians on the scene.

Kerouac’s musical legacy goes well beyond the studio recordings he made himself: his influence infused generations of music makers who followed in his work – from singer-songwriters to rock bands. Some of the greatest transatlantic names – Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead, Van Morrison and David Bowie, Janis Joplin and Tom Waits, Sonic Youth and Death Cab for Cutie, and many more – credited Kerouac’s impact on their output.

In Kerouac on Record, we consider how the writer brought his passion for jazz to his prose and poetry, his own record releases, the ways his legacy has been sustained by numerous more recent talents, those rock tributes that have kept his memory alive and some of the scores that have featured in Hollywood adaptations of the adventures he brought to the printed page.

Simon Warner is a journalist, lecturer and broadcaster who teaches Popular Music Studies at the University of Leeds in the UK. He has, over a number of years, written live reviews and counterculture obituaries for The Guardian and The Independent, and has a particular interest in the relationship between the Beat Generation writers–Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and others–and rock culture. His previous books include Rockspeak: The Language of Rock and Pop (1996) and Howl for Now: A Celebration of Allen Ginsberg’s epic protest poem (2005).

Jim Sampas is a music and film producer. His musical works often focuses on major cultural figures such Jack Kerouac (who is his Uncle), The Beatles, Bruce Springsteen, The Smiths, Bob Dylan, and The Rolling Stones. He has persuaded a galaxy of stars to partake of a unique aesthetic marriage, as vintage works are resurrected in contemporary arrangements in projects covered by such major news outlets as People Magazine, NPR, The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, and many others.

Kerouac on Record
A Literary Soundtrack
Editor(s): Simon Warner, Jim Sampas
Hardback £25.20
Paperback £16.19
Published: 2018
Format: Hardback
Extent: 480 p.
ISBN: 9781501323348
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions: 229 x 152 mm
£28.00

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Menno Wigman: Verzamelde gedichten

Menno Wigman (1966-2018) was een van de grootste en eigenzinnigste dichters van Nederland.

Zijn stijl werd gekenmerkt door een zwart-romantische toon die, afgewisseld met een weemoedige blik, direct tot de verbeelding sprak. Zijn gedichten waren even toegankelijk als experimenteel, een combinatie van een uitgesproken intensiteit met de beleving van het alledaagse. Wigmans Verzamelde gedichten zijn samengesteld door Neeltje Maria Min en Rob Schouten, zijn goede vrienden en de beste kenners van zijn werk.

Van Menno Wigman (1966-2018) verschenen vijf dichtbundels, een dagboek, een essaybundel en vele vertalingen, bloemlezingen en gelegenheidsuitgaven. Tot de vele prijzen die hij kreeg, behoren de Gedichtendagprijs (2002), de Jan Campert-prijs (2002), de A. Roland Holstprijs (2015) en de Ida Gerhardt Poëzieprijs (2018).

Verzamelde gedichten
Menno Wigman
336 pagina’s
Druk 1
Verschenen 27-09-19
Taal Nederlands
Poëzie
Gebonden
ISBN 9789044641936
Uitgever Prometheus
€ 29,99

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Laatste boek F. Starik: ‘Dichter van dienst’ over De eenzame uitvaart

Laatste boek van F. Starik: ‘Dichter van dienst’ over De eenzame uitvaart. Dichter van dienst is het vaarwel van F. Starik, zijn indrukwekkend en aangrijpend laatste boek over eenzame uitvaarten in Amsterdam die hij zestien jaar lang vormgaf.

‘Ik ben De Eenzame Uitvaart in de loop van tijd als een levensopdracht gaan zien, als een Taak die je tot het einde zult vervullen, niet als een project waarmee je na een tijdje weer ophoudt.

Het recept is eenvoudig en inmiddels bekend: dichters schrijven een gedicht – en dragen dat op de uitvaart voor – voor die mensen, die anders waren overgeschoten, voor wie niemand zou komen, over wie niemand had gesproken, was de dichter er niet geweest om afscheid te nemen, vaarwel te zeggen.’

Het boek: ‘Dichter van dienst’ is het vaarwel van F. Starik (1958-2018), zijn indrukwekkend en aangrijpend laatste boek over eenzame uitvaarten in Amsterdam die hij zestien jaar lang vormgaf.

Met gedichten van o.a. Maria Barnas, Wim Brands, Anneke Brassinga, Eva Gerlach, Erik Jan Harmens, Judith Herzberg, Neeltje Maria Min, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld en Menno Wigman.

F. Starik
Dichter van dienst
over De eenzame uitvaart
Uitgever: Nieuw Amsterdam
Verwacht: November 2019
ISBN 9789046825983
paperback
288 pagina’s
€ 20,99

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Dichter van dienst
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Ngugi wa Thiong’o: Minutes of Glory and Other Stories

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, although renowned for his novels, memoirs, and plays, honed his craft as a short story writer. From “The Fig Tree” (“Mugumo” in this collection), written in 1960, his first year as an undergraduate at Makerere University College in Uganda, to the playful “The Ghost of Michael Jackson,” written as a professor at the University of California, Irvine, these collected stories reveal a master of the short form.

Covering the period of British colonial rule and resistance in Kenya to the bittersweet experience of independence—and including two stories that have never before been published in the United States— Ngũgĩ’s collection features women fighting for their space in a patriarchal society; big men in their Bentleys who have inherited power from the British; and rebels who still embody the fighting spirit of the downtrodden.

One of Ngũgĩ’s most beloved stories, “Minutes of Glory,” tells of Beatrice, a sad but ambitious waitress who fantasizes about being feted and lauded over by the middle-class clientele in the city’s beer halls. Her dream leads her on a witty and heartbreaking adventure.

Published for the first time in America, Minutes of Glory and Other Stories is a major literary event that celebrates the storytelling might of one of Africa’s best-loved writers.

Title: Minutes of Glory and Other Stories
Author: Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Publisher: New Press, The
Format Hardcover
224 pages
ISBN-10 1620974657
ISBN-13 9781620974650
Publication Date 01 March 2019
Hardcover – $24.95

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