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Perquin is a poet fascinated with humans and their stories, whether prisoners or nameless, strange but recognizable figures.
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Contents
from Servetten halfstok (“Napkins at Half-mast”, 2007)
Convert
Wanted
Reincarnation
Winter
Field Trip
Girls
Neighbor
Full Moon
Enclosed
Regarding the Lover
Attempt
Beached
from Namens de ander (“In the Name of the Other”, 2009)
Risk Taking
Quiz
The Last Stranger
You Are the Wrong Man
Example
This morning a lady phoned wanting to know if I...
Guard Duty
Strangers
Older Brother
Sign Here Please
from Celinspecties (“Cell Inspections”, 2012)
That day I tumbled, unsuspecting, into someone else’s life, someone else’s...
Within Limitations
Statement
I can only tell this story once. The second time I tell it will sound rehearsed...
Carlo “the Conqueror” da C.
You can also think it’s someone else’s fault, all of it, because...
Letters to a P.O. Box
Nothing Happened
David H.
Delay
About Us
There Is a Lot Left
Dennis de K.
You want me to write down my life, string those people up...
So to Speak
Fathers, Sons
Confessions 1
Confessions 2
If You Lose Me
Bart V.
Conversation on the Street
Michael van W.
Legal Activities 1
Legal Activities 2
Song
New Work
Table Talk 1
Table Talk 2
Table Talk 3
About the author
Ester Naomi Perquin: Dutch poet, Ester Naomi Perquin (Utrecht 1980), worked for several years as a custodian at a prison to pay for her studies at the Amsterdam Creative Writing School. Her books include, Napkins at Half-Mast, On Behalf of the Other and Cell Inspections.
David Colmer: David Colmer is an Australian translator of Dutch literature based in Amsterdam. He has won many translation prizes, including the Impac prize for his 2010 translation of Gerbrand Bakker’s The Twin and the Independent Foreign Fiction award for his 2012 rendering of Bakker’s The Detour.
Summary
Perquin is a poet fascinated with humans and their stories, whether prisoners or nameless, strange but recognizable figures.
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