In dit Lucebert herdenkingsjaar is nu ook het laatste deel van de vertaling van zijn poëzie in het Engels verschenen bij Green Integer in Los Angeles: Lucebert, the collected poems, Volume 4
Informatie van de uitgever (Engelstalig):
Lucebert (pseudonym of Lubertus Jacobus Swaanswijk, 1924–1994) lived in Amsterdam and later in Bergen, a coastal town in the Netherlands then popular with artists.
The experimental and enigmatic quality of his verse made him a sensation in the early 1950s. He was instantly embraced by the avant-garde movements CoBrA and The Fiftiers, but eyed with suspicion by the Dutch establishment. Today, he is acknowledged as an important voice within the literary canon, and his prolific legacy extends to thousands of paintings and drawings.
The Collected Poems: Volume 4 includes his books Comfort the Hysterical Robot (1989), About the Motionless Turbulent Spirit (1993), About the Meticulous Reveller (1994), and Unpublished Poems (1994), left behind at his death. Whereas at the start of his career his poetry was optimistic and assertive, towards the end it was fraught with fear and negativity.
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