zoals praten met je dierbaren en spelen met je kinderen
kus me met je kussen de kussen van je mond je adem uitgegoten
” No Language Is Neutral reads language
one that can’t help but reveal an incomplete and yet overflowing existence
Tegelijk schuilen er in deze gedichten humor en relativering
Grand Larcenies Kim Hyesoon zoals praten met je dierbarenedited and translated by P. C. Evans Grand Larcenies features generous selections from the work of ten classic modern Dutch poets: Eva Gerlach, Gerrit Kouwenaar, Hester Knibbe, Hans R. Vlek, Rob Schouten, Willem van Toorn, J. Eijkelboom, H. H ter Balkt, K. Michel, and Esther Jansma. The translator, a notable Welsh poet and writer now living in the Netherlands, takes his bearings from Robert Minhinnick's seminal Welsh anthology The Adulterer's Tongue,