Against the forgetting: Selected poems - Softcover

Hans Faverey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0856462330 ISBN 13: 9780856462337

Publisher: Dufour Editions

Synopsis

Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation

`Against the Forgetting' introduces an important poet with the first extensive selection in English from the work of Hans Faverey (1933-1990). Francis R Jones's translations capture both the musicality and the sinuous density of Faverey's original Dutch. Quiet, rich and thoughtful, Faverey's poetry developed from the fragmented, mysterious images of his early work to the more explicit and representational style with which he gained wider recognition.

Edwin Morgan writes "Hans Faverey made his reputation only gradually, as readers came to realize that his pared-down, quietist, totally unflashy poems were in fact both moving and thought-provoking. He is a poet of losses and silences, of meditations on change and how change either undermines or strengthens our sense of reality."

About this title

About the Author

Hans Faverey was born in Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana in 1933, but grew up in Amsterdam. He was a clinical psychologist at the University of Leiden. He published eight collections of poetry, the last appearing only days before his death in July 1990. He received various literary awards, including the 1990 Constantijn Huygens Prize for his work as a whole.

Francis R Jones (b. 1955) lectures in English as a foreign language at the University of Newcastle. His other translations include Vasko Popa's `Collected Poems' (with the late Anne Pennington, Anvil, 1997), `Last Quarter' (1987), `The Passionate Measure' (European Poetry Translation Prize, 1989) and `A Rusty Needle' (Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation, 1996).

Edition details

• Publisher: Dufour Editions
• ISBN 10: 0856462330
• ISBN 13: 9780856462337
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256