Memorial Friederike Mayröcker Thousand-petalled lotuses bloom inside skulls

Thousand-petalled lotuses bloom inside skulls

Zijn veertig jaar schrijverschap vieren we met een aantal feestelijke uitgaven

In mei 1940 is de dichter Gerrit Kouwenaar (1923-2014) zestien jaar en schrijft hij zijn eerste gedichten

and trimmed by hand

Memorial Friederike Mayröcker Thousand-petalled lotuses bloom inside skullsAlice Oswald Matthew Arnold praised the "Iliad" for its 'nobility', as has everyone ever since but ancient critics praised it for its enargeia, its 'bright unbearable reality' (the word used when gods come to earth not in disguise but as themselves). To retrieve the poem's energy, Alice Oswald has stripped away its story, and her account focuses by turns on Homer's extended similes and on the brief 'biographies' of the minor war dead, most of whom are