Hello, the Roses Onderling heralds the long overdue introduction

heralds the long overdue introduction of a major Latin American poet to English-language readers

Award-winning poet explores new formal terrain in seven long poems against the violence of the present political moment

and an urgent plea

Voor haar debuutbundel Wat ik mijzelf graag voorhoud ontving Marsman in 2011 de C

in de hoop dat ze hardop voorgelezen worden aan de keukentafel of op de bank

Hello, the Roses Onderling heralds the long overdue introductionMei mei Berssenbrugge Mei mei Berssenbrugges Hello, the Roses opens up poetic form into long, shimmering lines shaped by the beauty and phenomenal fullness of the natural environment. She begins by exploring an array of unities perceived between myth and landscape, fashion and culture, experience and forgetting, boys and ravens. The poems of the middle section shift into an invisible world where plants, animals, and the self communicate and coexist