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Article: In a Different Light: Fourteen Contemporary Dutch-Language Poets.(Book Review)
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- July 1, 2003
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Rob Schouten, Robert Minhinnick, eds. Bridgend, Wales. Seren (Dufour, distr.). 2002. 198 pages. $19.95/9.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-85411-313-5
THE EDITORS of In a Different Light seem slightly embarrassed. When trying to characterize Dutch poetry, they speak in negations: it has no national identity, it is not politically interested, it does not occupy itself with particularities. Rob Schouten, a respected critic in his own country, can only come up with "a high level of globalization" as typically Dutch. It is an apt description of the present anthology of postwar Dutch-language poets. Its cover, a murky photograph of the floor of some leaf-strewn passage, ...
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