Greetings: Selected Poems

by Hugo Claus

The first English-language collection of poems by this major Flemish writer, Greetings contains work from more than six decades of Hugo Claus's career. Uncompromising and irreverent, Claus writes... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0151009007
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Length: 131 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.5" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

A study in passion!

Hugo Claus has been hailed as one of the most important voices in the contemporary Dutch language. Greetings: Selected Poems is Claus' first book to appear in English. The selected poems are a varied lot. They cover everything from the two world wars, love, family life, animals and toy trains. My personal favorites are Bitter Tastes and Elephant. Claus' poems evoke a wide range of emotions and awake different senses in the reader, depending on the subject matter, Some of his poems are irreverent, others disturbing, and a number are edgy and raw. Those who are passionate about poetry and the written word--how words feel and sound--will enjoy the poems depth of emotion. Armchair Interviews says: Greetings: Selected Poems is a study in passion.