Grand Larcenies Kim Hyesoon from taxi drivers to street

from taxi drivers to street vendors

attempts to understand at day’s end some of the day’s events

een zwaarmoedigheid

zoals praten met je dierbaren en spelen met je kinderen

kus me met je kussen de kussen van je mond je adem uitgegoten

Grand Larcenies Kim Hyesoon from taxi drivers to streetedited and translated by P. C. Evans Grand Larcenies features generous selections from the work of ten classic modern Dutch poets: Eva Gerlach, Gerrit Kouwenaar, Hester Knibbe, Hans R. Vlek, Rob Schouten, Willem van Toorn, J. Eijkelboom, H. H ter Balkt, K. Michel, and Esther Jansma. The translator, a notable Welsh poet and writer now living in the Netherlands, takes his bearings from Robert Minhinnick's seminal Welsh anthology The Adulterer's Tongue,