Nachoem M. Wijnberg av Nachoem M. Wijnberg

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<b>A new translation of work by one of the Netherland''s most innovative, exhilarating poets, a poet who draws on everything from economics to parables to world history.</b><br><br>The Dutch poet Nachoem M. Wijnberg is one of the most inventive, surprising, entertaining, and thought-provoking poets writing today. He is also remarkably productive, so that up to now only a small portion of his extensive body of work has  appeared in English translation. <br><br>This new selection of poems draws on all twenty volumes Wijnberg has published to date, constituting an indispensable introduction to this wry, off-kilter, spellbinding modern master. Wijnberg, not only a poet but a professor of business studies—hence his persistent concern with questions of value, real and false—writes only in the plainest language while displaying a formidable erudition. His poems engage economics, philosophy, and history; he writes Chinese poems and Jewish poems and classic songs; he