Collected Work

"Remco Campert has a similarity with my own family because his family was in the Dutch resistance as well, though he is very much older than me. But I really like his poetry because it was rebellious and against the tide of time, and there is a poem that is translated into English – I can read a little bit of it so that you can hear the repetition of it and the rhythm. Here now along the long deep water that I thought that I thought that you always that you always here now along the long deep water where behind the rushes behind the rushes the sun that I thought that you always but always that always your eyes your eyes and the breeze your eyes and the breeze always ruffling ruffling the water etc. Well, it’s hard for me because it’s in English and I’m a Dutch poet. There is collection of my poems just published in English, called Yugoslav Requiem and it goes along with the novel, King of Tuzla . August 5, 2010. Updated: May 21, 2023 Five Books aims to keep its book recommendations and interviews up to date. If you are the interviewee and would like to update your choice of books (or even just what you say about them) please email us at [email protected] Support Five Books Five Books interviews are expensive to produce. If you've enjoyed this interview, please support us by donating a small amount ."