Nachoem M. Wijnberg (Wijnberg Nachoem M.)(Paperback)

A new translation of work by one of the Netherland's most innovative, exhilarating poets, a poet who draws on everything from economics to parables to world history. The Dutch poet Nachoem Wijnberg is one of the most inventive, surprising, entertaining, and thought-provoking poets writing today. He is also remarkably productive, so that up to now only a small portion of his extensive body of work has appeared in English translation and none of it in America. This new selection of poems draws on all of the nineteen volumes Wijnberg has published to date and also includes uncollected work and constitutes an indispensable introduction to this wry, off-kilter, but spellbinding modern master. Wijnberg, not only a poet but a professor of business studies--hence his persistent concern with questions of value, real and false--writes only in the plainest language while displaying a
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