The Hunger in Plain View:Selected Poems
Published on 29. June 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
100 pages
978-1-945680-05-2 (ISBN)
Description
As a poet, Perquin is able to get into the minds of others. Whether they are the delinquents presented to us in Cell Inspections or the nameless, strange, but extremely recognizable figures in her other work. The reader always gets the feeling that she is being addressed by a person of flesh and blood. Because Perquin often uses the second-person singular, the idea of direct communication is further reinforced. Who is this ?you"? Is it the reader or the writer?
Dutch poet Ester Naomi Perquin worked as a prison guard to pay for her college education. She has published three books of poetry.
Dutch poet Ester Naomi Perquin worked as a prison guard to pay for her college education. She has published three books of poetry.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Buffalo
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
136 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-945680-05-2 (9781945680052)
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Persons
Ester Naomi Perquin: Dutch poet, Ester Naomi Perquin (Utrecht 1980), worked for several years as a custodian at a prison to pay for her studies at the Amsterdam Creative Writing School. Her books include, Napkins at Half-Mast, On Behalf of the Other and Cell Inspections.
David Colmer: David Colmer is an Australian translator of Dutch literature based in Amsterdam. He has won many translation prizes, including the Impac prize for his 2010 translation of Gerbrand Bakker's The Twin and the Independent Foreign Fiction award for his 2012 rendering of Bakker's The Detour.
David Colmer: David Colmer is an Australian translator of Dutch literature based in Amsterdam. He has won many translation prizes, including the Impac prize for his 2010 translation of Gerbrand Bakker's The Twin and the Independent Foreign Fiction award for his 2012 rendering of Bakker's The Detour.
Content
Contents
from Servetten halfstok ("Napkins at Half-mast", 2007)
Convert
Wanted
Reincarnation
Winter
Field Trip
Girls
Neighbor
Full Moon
Enclosed
Regarding the Lover
Attempt
Beached
from Namens de ander ("In the Name of the Other", 2009)
Risk Taking
Quiz
The Last Stranger
You Are the Wrong Man
Example
This morning a lady phoned wanting to know if I...
Guard Duty
Strangers
Older Brother
Sign Here Please
from Celinspecties ("Cell Inspections", 2012)
That day I tumbled, unsuspecting, into someone else's life, someone else's...
Within Limitations
Statement
I can only tell this story once. The second time I tell it will sound rehearsed...
Carlo "the Conqueror" da C.
You can also think it's someone else's fault, all of it, because...
Letters to a P.O. Box
Nothing Happened
David H.
Delay
About Us
There Is a Lot Left
Dennis de K.
You want me to write down my life, string those people up...
So to Speak
Fathers, Sons
Confessions 1
Confessions 2
If You Lose Me
Bart V.
Conversation on the Street
Michael van W.
Legal Activities 1
Legal Activities 2
Song
New Work
Table Talk 1
Table Talk 2
Table Talk 3
from Servetten halfstok ("Napkins at Half-mast", 2007)
Convert
Wanted
Reincarnation
Winter
Field Trip
Girls
Neighbor
Full Moon
Enclosed
Regarding the Lover
Attempt
Beached
from Namens de ander ("In the Name of the Other", 2009)
Risk Taking
Quiz
The Last Stranger
You Are the Wrong Man
Example
This morning a lady phoned wanting to know if I...
Guard Duty
Strangers
Older Brother
Sign Here Please
from Celinspecties ("Cell Inspections", 2012)
That day I tumbled, unsuspecting, into someone else's life, someone else's...
Within Limitations
Statement
I can only tell this story once. The second time I tell it will sound rehearsed...
Carlo "the Conqueror" da C.
You can also think it's someone else's fault, all of it, because...
Letters to a P.O. Box
Nothing Happened
David H.
Delay
About Us
There Is a Lot Left
Dennis de K.
You want me to write down my life, string those people up...
So to Speak
Fathers, Sons
Confessions 1
Confessions 2
If You Lose Me
Bart V.
Conversation on the Street
Michael van W.
Legal Activities 1
Legal Activities 2
Song
New Work
Table Talk 1
Table Talk 2
Table Talk 3