Year:
1998
Publisher:
De Arbeiderspers
Language:
Dutch
Buy:
www.singeluitgeverijen.nl
Awarded with:
C. Buddingh'-prize, 1999
Nominated for:
VSB Poetry Prize, 1999
Paul Snoekprize, 2000

OF THE SQUARE MAN

From first poem to last, Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer’s debut collection is remarkable for both its rich imagery and sounds and its varied themes and compositions. His ‘butter-baked images and bulimic verses’—as promised in the tone-setting opening poem—are combined and varied with subtle attitudes toward poetic tradition and prosaic reality. The poems are jarring in their evocative directness. This much is clear: Pfeijffer is not your sober, straightforward poet.


Year:
De Arbeiderspers
Publisher:
De Arbeiderspers
Language:
Dutch
Buy:
www.singeluitgeverijen.nl/de-arbeiderspers/boek/van-de-vierkante-man-2/
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