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What It Is: Selected Poems
Esther Jansma
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Description for What It Is: Selected Poems
Paperback. A collection of poems that explores time and memory, past and present, death, loss, decay and legacy. Translator(s): Jones, Francis R. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 138 x 7. Weight in Grams: 158.
Esther Jansma is a leading Dutch poet as well as an influential archaeologist. Interweaving a dazzling variety of strands, her poetry explores time and memory, past and present, death, loss, decay and legacy, and yet draws fresh power from these perennial themes because she writes from two opposite but complementary viewpoints. As an archaeologist she refined a technique for establishing the age of wooden artefacts from growth-rings in the wood which could be applied to timber from The Netherlands. Lending a voice to the past, making time visible in all its aspects, is also what she does in her poetry. ... Read more
Esther Jansma is a leading Dutch poet as well as an influential archaeologist. Interweaving a dazzling variety of strands, her poetry explores time and memory, past and present, death, loss, decay and legacy, and yet draws fresh power from these perennial themes because she writes from two opposite but complementary viewpoints. As an archaeologist she refined a technique for establishing the age of wooden artefacts from growth-rings in the wood which could be applied to timber from The Netherlands. Lending a voice to the past, making time visible in all its aspects, is also what she does in her poetry. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852247805
SKU
V9781852247805
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About Esther Jansma
Esther Jansma was born in 1958 in Amsterdam, and now lives in Utrecht. She studied philosophy at the University of Amsterdam, obtaining her doctorate, for research in dendrochronology. She works as an archaeologist, and is currently senior researcher at Dutch Heritage. She holds a Chair in Dendrochronology at Utrecht University. She has won several awards for her poetry, and has ... Read more
Reviews for What It Is: Selected Poems
Jansma is a past master in bringing home to the reader the convergence of death and life, of holding on and letting go, of having and not understanding, and this is what makes her one of the most important poets of our time.
Koen Vergeer
The Low Countries
A harsh, versatile, colourful collection, with life and death ... Read more
Koen Vergeer
The Low Countries
A harsh, versatile, colourful collection, with life and death ... Read more