Nachoem M. Wijnberg by Nachoem M Wijnberg

Nachoem M. Wijnberg by Nachoem M Wijnberg

A new translation of work by one of the Netherland's most innovative, exhilarating poets, a poet who draws on everything from economics to parables to world history.

The Dutch poet Nachoem M. Wijnberg is one of the most inventive, surprising, entertaining, and thought-provoking poets writing today. He is also remarkably productive, so that up to now only a small portion of his extensive body of work has appeared in English translation.

This new selection of poems draws on all twenty volumes Wijnberg has published to date, constituting an indispensable introduction to this wry, off-kilter, spellbinding modern master. Wijnberg, not only a poet but a professor of business studies--hence his persistent concern with questions of value, real and false--writes only in the plainest language while displaying a formidable erudition. His poems engage economics, philosophy, and history; he writes Chinese poems and Jewish poems and classic songs; he tells stories that may or may not be parables; he writes from where the mind meets the heart. "Tell all the truth but tell it slant," Emily Dickinson enjoins. Wijnberg for his part has said, "Alienation is the last thing I am trying to achieve. The world is strange enough as it is and my poems help in dealing with that strangeness by bringing it close and as far as possible trying to understand it."

This English-only edition does not include the poems in their original language.

Nachoem M. Wijnberg (Amsterdam, 1961) is a Dutch poet and novelist who has been acclaimed as one of the foremost Dutch authors of the last decades. His first book of poetry De simulatie van de schepping (The Simulation of the Creation) was published in 1989 and nominated as a best debut. His work went on to receive a series of Dutch and Belgian awards, including the highly prestigious 2009 VSB Prize for the best book of poetry published in the Netherlands for Het leven van (The life of) and the Gedichtendagprijs 2010 for Divan van Ghalib (Divan of Ghalib). In 2015 he published his fifth novel Alle collega's dood (All Colleagues Dead) and his sixteenth book of poems Van groot belang (Of Great Importance). Translated poems have appeared in journals and anthologies in English, French, German, Chinese, Italian and other languages. A book of English translations (by David Colmer) has been published by Anvil Press Poetry in 2013 under the title Advance Payment. In 2014 an Italian translation of Divan van Ghalib has been published by La Camera Verde in 2015. The same book appear in 2016, in an English translation, again by David Colmer, as Divan of Ghalib, at White Pine Press. Nachoem M. Wijnberg is also Professor of Cultural Entrepreneurship and Management at the University of Amsterdam Business School. Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei is a philologist with a background in music composition, linguistics, conceptual art, and philosophy. He studied under Avital Ronell at the European Graduate School and Christopher Fynsk at the Centre for Modern Thought. Recent publications include Cross-Examinations (Gent: MER. Paper Kunsthalle, 2015), Allegory of the Cave Painting (Milan: Mousse, 2015; co-edited with Mihnea Mircan) and Lapidari, 3 vols. (Brooklyn: punctum books, 2015). As a translator, he has worked on Jean Daive, Alessandro De Francesco, Hervü¾Ž–”¼ Guibert, Dick Raaijmakers, Avital Ronell, and Nachoem Wijnberg, among others, and his writings have appeared in journals such as continent., Frakcija, nY, Parmentier, postmedieval, and Theory & Event. Van Gerven Oei is director of the project bureau for the arts and humanities The Department of Eagles in Tirana, Albania and the multilingual publishing house Uitgeverij. He is also co-director of punctum books and founding editor of the journal Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies.

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ISBN 13	9781681376523
ISBN 10	1681376520
Title	Nachoem M. Wijnberg
Author	Nachoem M Wijnberg
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The New York Review of Books, Inc
Year published	2022-09-20
Number of pages	180
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