In the Same Light: 200 Poems for Our Century Sara Nicholson Maarten van der Graaff

Maarten van der Graaff

Hoe doorwaad je de onophoudelijke stroom aan tragisch nieuws die onze levens binnen sijpelt

dat werd bekroond met de Woutertje Pieterse Prijs

Ten years later

A lonely winter day

In the Same Light: 200 Poems for Our Century Sara Nicholson Maarten van der GraaffWong May, translation Chinese poetry is unique in world literature in that it was written for the best part of 3,000 years by exiles and refugees. In this anthology, we meet Du Fu, Li Bai, Wang Wei, and others less familiar to readers in English. Known as the Golden Age of Poetry, the Tang Dynasty was a time when poems were bartered for wine and tea, posted in temples and taverns; the words of poets unmissable as street art and signage. Monks,