Skip to content

Greetings: Selected Poems

Greetings: Selected Poems Hardcover - 2005

by Claus, Hugo

  • Used
  • very good
  • Hardcover

Description

Harcourt, 2005. Hardcover. Very Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting, but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
Used - Very Good
NZ$12.31
FREE Shipping to USA Standard delivery: 4 to 8 days
More Shipping Options
Ships from ThriftBooks (Washington, United States)

Details

  • Title Greetings: Selected Poems
  • Author Claus, Hugo
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First English la
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 131
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harcourt, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.
  • Date 2005
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0151009007I4N00
  • ISBN 9780151009008 / 0151009007
  • Weight 0.61 lbs (0.28 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.04 x 5.74 x 0.65 in (20.42 x 14.58 x 1.65 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Claus, Hugo
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005015236
  • Dewey Decimal Code 839.311

About ThriftBooks Washington, United States

Biblio member since 2018
Seller rating: This seller has earned a 4 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.

From the largest selection of used titles, we put quality, affordable books into the hands of readers

Terms of Sale: 30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.

Browse books from ThriftBooks

Summary

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 about postwar politics and society, about race and class, love and sex, art and literature. This volume is sure to appeal to anyone interested in the avant-garde of the last half-century-and to anyone interested in poetry that continues to be provocative, pertinent, and compelling.

Year of atrocities, year of cathode-ray tube and stock market report,
Year of milk and honey if you're asleep,
Year that sticks in your stomach if you're awake,
Sweet year, good year for sleepwalkers . . .

Year that freezes the smile.
It was in that year I went to live in a village
with books, a wife and a child
who grows
while I talk about the tigers in the East.

- F R O M " 1 9 6 5 "