A new collection of Dutch poems by Jan Kleefstra has been published by Uitgeverij Aspekt. The collection 'Ruisen van berken' (Rustling of Birches) is about the rustling of birches, and other sounds and tones, and about what human life inflicts upon non-human life, and the Earth, over which the wind blows, and the reeds bend, but above all about water, as a whole, and that everything is connected to it, where the gulls sleep, and the love it brings, but most of all about birches, the first and the last tree in the memory of the poet who resides in the ever-further sinking center of his birthplace. That is what this collection is about.
You can order 'Ruisen van berken' via the publisher's webshop.
