translated by Stalina Villareal
The poems go two by two across facing pages
"To have the idea of the secret chord is to have the secret chord
Martinus Nijhoff (1894-1953) is een van de belangrijkste twintigste-eeuwse Nederlandse dichters en wordt gezien als de grondlegger van onze moderne poëzie
this is an unflinching and deeply felt meditation on life and death in a nation in flux
A Talk on Rhyme Orchard translated by Stalina VillarealDavid Brazil In A Talk on Rhyme, a text distilled from a lecture given in 2014, poet David Brazil reflects on rhymes emergence, progress, inoperativity, and prospect. The Talk is supplemented by an essayistic bibliography on subjects ranging from classical prosody to American folk music, via writings on and by poets long dead whose names are obvious: Saint Paul, Dickinson, Herbert, Spicer, Hlderlin, Dante, OHara.