The Old Coastline: Selected Poems of M. Vasalis by Vasalis, M.
The Old Coastline: Selected Poems of M. Vasalis by Vasalis, M.

The Old Coastline: Selected Poems of M. Vasalis

She has been called "the Dutch Elizabeth Bishop." These are poems that readers cherish for their intensity,...
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The Old Coastline: Selected Poems of M. Vasalis by Vasalis, M.

The Old Coastline: Selected Poems of M. Vasalis

€31,80
The Old Coastline: Selected Poems of M. Vasalis by Vasalis, M.

The Old Coastline: Selected Poems of M. Vasalis

€31,80
Author: M. Vasalis
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

She has been called "the Dutch Elizabeth Bishop." These are poems that readers cherish for their intensity, intimacy, and cinematic effects.

SIMULTANEITY
Six in the evening, in the kitchen

The little dog with pricked-up ears,
the potatoes boiling on the stove,
the wooden tick of the clock - the sky
far and gray-blue and the jewelweeds,
tall as people. The pasture
with uneven tussocks and their shadows,
like drawings in a cave. And the knifelike light
that burns through the leaves, a glittering mystery.
And I - another creature, watching it.
It blends together and it doesn't change.
Oh Lord. I feel that something ought
to be made clear to me. That I've been granted time,
and yet, however overwhelmed I am,
something is missing that would help me say: this order,
however slipshod it may be: I see it, I'm awakened.
Forgive my deafness and my lack of seeing,
and hold me in your greatness - I am small,
but have, as well, too many tentacles
that grope in the different-being Being.

M. Vasalis (1909-1998) was the pen name of Margaretha Drooglever-Fortuyn-Leenmans, a Dutch psychiatrist who specialized in children. Her poems come out of her life, her experience of the natural world, her professional practice, and her family relations. They arise from the pressure of occasion and necessity rather from an ambition to originality or greatness--their relative modesty is one of their secret strengths. Vasalis remains one of the most widely read and admired poets of her language and country.



Author: M. Vasalis
Publisher: Pinyon Publishing
Published: 03/29/2019
Pages: 126
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9781936671557

About the Author
Young, David: - David Young is a poet (Field of Light and Shadow, 2010), editor (Field magazine and Oberlin College Press), and translator (Du Fu, Rilke, Petrarch, Holub) who enjoys collaborative translation, particularly with one of his oldest friends, Fred Lessing.Vasalis, M.: - M. Vasalis (1909-1998) was the pen name of Margaretha Drooglever-Fortuyn-Leenmans, a Dutch psychiatrist who specialized in children. Vasalis remains one of the most widely read and admired poets of her language and country, called the Dutch Elizabeth Bishop.Lessing, Fred: - Fred Lessing, Holocaust survivor, psychotherapist, and retired professor of Philosophy, retained his native Dutch language after immigrating to America at age 12. He had no knowledge of Vasalis until his brothers asked him about De idioot in het bad. Fred felt it was inspired by the same muse as much of David Young's poetry. That launched their project to make Vasalis' work available to English speaking lovers of poetry.

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