Bøger udgivet af Dutch Poet Press

Can mere words manage to capture the texture of our dreams, which are so fragmentaryand fleeting? This slim volume of twenty poems by Joel Thomas Katz suggests it's not only possible but necessary, because our dreaming hours may not be so different from our waking hours. His quirky, playful poems ask us to consider how the mysterious and unexpected moments of our lives offer the possibility of experiencing more fully what it means to be human. This book shows us that anything can be a source for such an understanding, including picture postcards, sliced radishes and EXIT signs.

This book is a transcontinental collaborative translation of Vrije uitloop (Free range), a book of Dutch poetry about the environment and the human condition written by Saskia Stehouwer and published by Uitgeverij Marmer in 2016. The translation was done by three poet-translators: Joel Thomas Katz and Robert Perry of Palo Alto, California, and the author Saskia Stehouwer of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. It is accompanied by Field Notes, a collection of discoveries and observations in the form of essays, poetry, and a lively conversation from the poet-translators. During their project, the poet-translators discovered the illuminating concept about being witness. At the Kröller-Müller Museum in the Netherlands, they saw this concept embodied in a sculpture of a large olive tree trunk placed on a pedestal called The Witness (De Getuige) by the Dutch artist Herman de Vries. The sculpture as well as the book demonstrate Nature as Witness, Art as Witness, Artist as Witness.

Translation of a selection of Dutch poems by Ingmar Heytze and Saskia Stehouwer into English and essays by poet-translators Joel Thomas Katz and Robert Perry