Cees Nooteboom is a poet, novelist, and travel writer, whose works include Rituals, The Following Story, and Lost Paradise. David Colmer has won several translation awards, most notably the PEN Award for his body of work.

• Light Everywhere (2012)Light Everywhere:LifelinesEveningThe figureTrixyPenobscotExileNightItKozan-ji, myoe meditatingApril auf dem landeThe candlePurgatoryWithout an imageRiso amaroHorace to pollio in 2005Glove, year, photoOutsideRecognitionUtopia triumphansLandscapeRaison d’etreA trail in white sandEncounters:JuarrozWittgensteinHesiodMeng JiaoShelleyBorgesDescartesVirgil, fifth eclogueUngarettiWallace StevensParlando:PoemOccasional Poems:Stolen poemPoetPost restanteBittersweet (2000)BittersweetPicasso, late etchingsSpringAmsterdam, 1200Paula Modersohn-Becker, still life, 1905Fairy taleThe poet Li Ho finds an arrow on the battlefieldSummerRilke, painted by Paul Modersohn-Becker, 1906DistortionThe first photo of godSolanum dulcamaraAutumnNoche transfiguradaIt Could Be Like That (1999)SelfPostLatinEye Sight (1989)Bashō The Poet and Things: Lucretius Duality Fire Atoms Mirror, reflect Justice culinaire Eye Sight: The deception of seeing What there was to see The inner eye The litany of the eye The Eye’s Sights: Silesius dreams Cauda Paesaggi Narrati (The Landscape Tells the Story) (1982) Empty quarter Altiplano Bait (1982) Nerval Elko, Nevada Snow Bogotá Manáos Traveler Fin de saison Cliff Rock plant Tree Scholasticism Fuji Friend Open Like a Shell, Closed Like a Stone (1978) Rolling stone Birthday Nobody Cries and whispers Afternoon Suitcase Hotels Last letter Trainers and leather-dyers, Marrakesh The death of Aegeus Homer on Ithaca Those were the days The thought Present, Absent (1970)Poseidon and Amphitrite, Villa Stabia, Pompeii The green hunter T. Athena, on an aphora painted by Psiax (Brescia) Nothing at all Closed Poems (1964) A rainy part of the country Golden fiction The Black Poem (1960) Jungle M’hamid, tagounite Calera y chozas Notes Translator’s acknowledgements

"[Nooteboom’s] highest achievement may turn out to be a body of verse in which he reflects with uncompromising clarity on the powers and limitations of art."

Cees Nooteboom is a poet, novelist, and travel writer, whose works include Rituals, The Following Story, and Lost Paradise. David Colmer has won several translation awards, most notably the PEN Award for his body of work.

• Light Everywhere (2012)Light Everywhere:LifelinesEveningThe figureTrixyPenobscotExileNightItKozan-ji, myoe meditatingApril auf dem landeThe candlePurgatoryWithout an imageRiso amaroHorace to pollio in 2005Glove, year, photoOutsideRecognitionUtopia triumphansLandscapeRaison d’etreA trail in white sandEncounters:JuarrozWittgensteinHesiodMeng JiaoShelleyBorgesDescartesVirgil, fifth eclogueUngarettiWallace StevensParlando:PoemOccasional Poems:Stolen poemPoetPost restanteBittersweet (2000)BittersweetPicasso, late etchingsSpringAmsterdam, 1200Paula Modersohn-Becker, still life, 1905Fairy taleThe poet Li Ho finds an arrow on the battlefieldSummerRilke, painted by Paul Modersohn-Becker, 1906DistortionThe first photo of godSolanum dulcamaraAutumnNoche transfiguradaIt Could Be Like That (1999)SelfPostLatinEye Sight (1989)Bashō The Poet and Things: Lucretius Duality Fire Atoms Mirror, reflect Justice culinaire Eye Sight: The deception of seeing What there was to see The inner eye The litany of the eye The Eye’s Sights: Silesius dreams Cauda Paesaggi Narrati (The Landscape Tells the Story) (1982) Empty quarter Altiplano Bait (1982) Nerval Elko, Nevada Snow Bogotá Manáos Traveler Fin de saison Cliff Rock plant Tree Scholasticism Fuji Friend Open Like a Shell, Closed Like a Stone (1978) Rolling stone Birthday Nobody Cries and whispers Afternoon Suitcase Hotels Last letter Trainers and leather-dyers, Marrakesh The death of Aegeus Homer on Ithaca Those were the days The thought Present, Absent (1970)Poseidon and Amphitrite, Villa Stabia, Pompeii The green hunter T. Athena, on an aphora painted by Psiax (Brescia) Nothing at all Closed Poems (1964) A rainy part of the country Golden fiction The Black Poem (1960) Jungle M’hamid, tagounite Calera y chozas Notes Translator’s acknowledgements

"[Nooteboom’s] highest achievement may turn out to be a body of verse in which he reflects with uncompromising clarity on the powers and limitations of art."

Cees Nooteboom is a poet, novelist, and travel writer, whose works include Rituals, The Following Story, and Lost Paradise. David Colmer has won several translation awards, most notably the PEN Award for his body of work.

• Light Everywhere (2012)Light Everywhere:LifelinesEveningThe figureTrixyPenobscotExileNightItKozan-ji, myoe meditatingApril auf dem landeThe candlePurgatoryWithout an imageRiso amaroHorace to pollio in 2005Glove, year, photoOutsideRecognitionUtopia triumphansLandscapeRaison d’etreA trail in white sandEncounters:JuarrozWittgensteinHesiodMeng JiaoShelleyBorgesDescartesVirgil, fifth eclogueUngarettiWallace StevensParlando:PoemOccasional Poems:Stolen poemPoetPost restanteBittersweet (2000)BittersweetPicasso, late etchingsSpringAmsterdam, 1200Paula Modersohn-Becker, still life, 1905Fairy taleThe poet Li Ho finds an arrow on the battlefieldSummerRilke, painted by Paul Modersohn-Becker, 1906DistortionThe first photo of godSolanum dulcamaraAutumnNoche transfiguradaIt Could Be Like That (1999)SelfPostLatinEye Sight (1989)Bashō The Poet and Things: Lucretius Duality Fire Atoms Mirror, reflect Justice culinaire Eye Sight: The deception of seeing What there was to see The inner eye The litany of the eye The Eye’s Sights: Silesius dreams Cauda Paesaggi Narrati (The Landscape Tells the Story) (1982) Empty quarter Altiplano Bait (1982) Nerval Elko, Nevada Snow Bogotá Manáos Traveler Fin de saison Cliff Rock plant Tree Scholasticism Fuji Friend Open Like a Shell, Closed Like a Stone (1978) Rolling stone Birthday Nobody Cries and whispers Afternoon Suitcase Hotels Last letter Trainers and leather-dyers, Marrakesh The death of Aegeus Homer on Ithaca Those were the days The thought Present, Absent (1970)Poseidon and Amphitrite, Villa Stabia, Pompeii The green hunter T. Athena, on an aphora painted by Psiax (Brescia) Nothing at all Closed Poems (1964) A rainy part of the country Golden fiction The Black Poem (1960) Jungle M’hamid, tagounite Calera y chozas Notes Translator’s acknowledgements

"[Nooteboom’s] highest achievement may turn out to be a body of verse in which he reflects with uncompromising clarity on the powers and limitations of art."