Singing home

Title: Singing Home

Author: RA Basart

Binding: Paperback

EAN: 9789048832132

Condition: Good

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Description:

In 1974, the then 28-year-old RA Basart won an incentive prize for the manuscript of his first collection of poems: Oranjebal. The jury (Gerrit Komrij, Mensje van Keulen, Bert Bakker and Guus Luijters) saw great promise in him, but when asked about his literary aspirations, Basart replied that 'he had no intention of giving up his teaching job for a career in literature'.
Whereof act. A second collection appeared, De gezond apotheek (1977), and a novel, De laatste lach (1997). Only last year a new novel appeared, De verzoening, which was showered with praise. And in the meantime Basart continued to write poetry. Poems full of melancholy and absurdity, in which the sublime and the banal go hand in hand, and the gloomy everydayness is cheerfully sung, with here and there a firm dash of venom. Like his prose, Basart's poetry is difficult to categorize, but if we must make an attempt, we think of Nijhoff and Eliot.
Zingend naar huis brings together the best of Oranjebal and De gezond apotheek, supplemented with a series of brand new poetry.
RA Basart is back, and how.