Virgula

Sasja Janssen

ISBN 10: 1913513505 / ISBN 13: 9781913513504

Verlag: Prototype Publishing, 2024

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Inhaltsangabe:

'Sultry, raw and relentless. This intoxicating poetry seizes you with its beautiful, rich images and refuses to let go.' – Awater Poetry Prize jury

'This book is stunning. Totally wild.' – Jack Underwood

In Virgula, Sasja Janssen’s award-winning collection, the comma becomes much more than a punctuation mark; it stops the stillness and allows thoughts and language to move forward. Virgula is invoked as a muse and a companion; she is called on in every poem, as if she were a goddess, friend or lover, someone who offers space when the emptiness becomes too heavy.

Virgula received the Awater Poetry Prize and was nominated for the Ida Gerhardt Poetry Prize and the Herman de Coninck Prize and De Grote Poëzieprijs (Grand Poetry Prize) for best poetry collection 2021.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren:

Sasja Janssen (b. 1968) is a poet and a teacher of creative writing based in Amsterdam. Her first publications were two novels but since her father's death she has mainly written poetry. Her poetry has been very well received, her most recent collection Virgula (2021) was nominated for five Dutch prizes and awarded the prestigious Awater Poetry Prize.

Putting On My Species (2014) has been translated into English (Shearsman, 2020). English and Spanish translations of Virgula will appear this year. Janssen has performed nationally and internationally, including at festivals in Nicaragua, Medellín, Mexico and Buenos Aires.

The poet and critic Piet Gerbrandy wrote of her work, 'The poet tries desperately to grasp something of the insane world we find ourselves in and in which we have to simply make do, with totally inadequate means.' The poet herself says that the philosophical question "How should we live?" forms the central theme of her work.

Michele Hutchison was born in the UK and has lived in Amsterdam since 2004. She was educated at UEA, Cambridge, and Lyon universities. She translates literary fiction and nonfiction, poetry, graphic novels, and children’s books. Recent translations include works by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Raoul Deleo, Octavie Wolters, Gerda Blees, and Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, with whom she shared the 2020 International Booker Prize for The Discomfort of Evening. She also co-authored the successful parenting book The Happiest Kids in the World.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Virgula
Verlag: Prototype Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: Very Good