Against the Forgetting – Selected Poems (New Directions Paperbook) - Softcover

Faverey, Hans; Jones, Francis R.; Weinberger, Eliot

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811215555 ISBN 13: 9780811215558

Publisher: New Directions, 2004

Synopsis

Against the Forgetting presents the work of an important twentieth-century Dutch poet, Hans Faverey. The first extensive selection of his poetry in English, this collection brings together poems from his eight published volumes of poetry spanning the years 1968 to 1990--the last volume, Default, he received only two days before his death. In addition, a selection of poems from a posthumous collection, Spring Foxes, first published in Holland in 2000, is also included. The translator Francis Jones writes, "Hans Faverey left behind a poetic structure of uniquely subtle richness and beauty, made from so little--a few words, surrounded by silence." Filled with a precision and arresting musicality comparable to the hermetic poems of Celan and Bronk, and as mysterious as the writings of Heraclitus and the German mystic Meister Eckhart, Faverey's poems, like Lichtenberg's lightning frozen in time, lash out, splintering systems and syntax--enlightening.

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Review

"Hans Faverey made his reputation only gradually.... He is a poet of losses and silences, of meditations on change and how change either undermines or strengthens our sense of reality."

About the Author

Hans Faverey (1933-1990) was born in Paramaribo, Surinam and moved to Amsterdam when he was a child. He worked as a clinical psychologist at the University of Leiden and received many literary awards, including the Constantijn Huygens Prize for his work as a whole.

Edition details

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0811215555
• ISBN 13: 9780811215558
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 240