Landscape with Rowers: Poetry from the Netherlands

Though the Netherlands has been the site of vigorous literary activity since at least the Beweging van Vijftig (Movement of the Fifties) poets, the status of Dutch as a "minor" language spoken by only twenty-two million people has kept its rich poetry more or less a secret. This volume—featuring J. M. Coetzee's finely wrought English translations side-by-side with the originals—brings the work of six of the most important modern and contemporary Dutch poets to light.


Ranging in style from t...