The Hunger in Plain View:Selected Poems (Paperback)

Ester Naomi Perquin

ISBN 10: 1945680059 / ISBN 13: 9781945680052

Published by White Pine Press, Buffalo, 2017

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Paperback. As a poet, Perquin is able to get into the minds of others. Whether they are the delinquents presented to us in Cell Inspections or the nameless, strange, but extremely recognizable figures in her other work. The reader always gets the feeling that she is being addressed by a person of flesh and blood. Because Perquin often uses the second-person singular, the idea of direct communication is further reinforced. Who is this "you"? Is it the reader or the writer?Dutch poet Ester Naomi Perquin worked as a prison guard to pay for her college education. She has published three books of poetry. Perquin is a poet fascinated with humans and their stories, whether prisoners or nameless, strange but recognizable figures. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Hunger in Plain View:Selected Poems (Paperback)
• Publisher: White Pine Press, Buffalo
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1945680059
• ISBN 13: 9781945680052
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

As a poet, Perquin is able to get into the minds of others. Whether they are the delinquents presented to us in Cell Inspections or the nameless, strange, but extremely recognizable figures in her other work. The reader always gets the feeling that she is being addressed by a person of flesh and blood. Because Perquin often uses the second-person singular, the idea of direct communication is further reinforced. Who is this “you”? Is it the reader or the writer?

Dutch poet Ester Naomi Perquin worked as a prison guard to pay for her college education. She has published three books of poetry.

About the Author

Ester Naomi Perquin: Dutch poet, Ester Naomi Perquin (Utrecht 1980), worked for several years as a custodian at a prison to pay for her studies at the Amsterdam Creative Writing School. Her books include, Napkins at Half-Mast, On Behalf of the Other and Cell Inspections.

David Colmer: David Colmer is an Australian translator of Dutch literature based in Amsterdam. He has won many translation prizes, including the Impac prize for his 2010 translation of Gerbrand Bakker’s The Twin and the Independent Foreign Fiction award for his 2012 rendering of Bakker’s The Detour.