Week

Title: Week

Writer: Gerda Blees

Binding: Hardcover

EAN: 9789463811439

Condition: Good

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Description:
A pregnancy in poems

A mother speaks to her unborn child. Outside the world is raging, inside her belly life is growing, bringing joy and beautiful dreams for the future, but also fear, worries and discomfort. With wonder and self-relativization, the poet shows how the impending motherhood changes her body and life. Gerda Blees continued to write during her pregnancy: a poem every week. The result is the equally comical and vulnerable, equally light-hearted and loving Week. Never before has the beginning of a human life been documented in this way.

(...) and now / something light again, a friend from the past writes that the regular / movement you do is the hiccups, I have my own thoughts about it, you are becoming / one of those rare men who can dance in time.

Press about previous work:
'Gerda Blees has a very free way of thinking, but nevertheless knows very well what she is doing, what lines she is setting, what expectations she is raising.' ***** NRC Handelsblad

'It's great when a writer shows courage by doing things differently, but it's pure profit when that unconventionality has added value and leads to a unique novel.' **** de Volkskrant

'In crystal clear poems Blees gives us a playful and sometimes macabre perspective on love, illness and happiness.' Jury C. Buddingh' Prize