Jan Baeke Biography
Jan Baeke ( Roosendaal , May 23, 1956 ) is a Dutch poet .
Jan Baeke debuted in 1997 with The Bezige Bij with the bundle Never without the horses . Ten years before, he published poems in the magazines Tirade and De Zingende Saag . His fourth bundle, Greater than the facts , was nominated for the VSB Poetry Prize 2008.
Jan Baeke's poetry takes his own place in the Netherlands. It is poetry that can call a mystery in plain language and with direct images. Influences are from filmmakers ( Luis Buñuel , Michael Haneke and Andrej Tarkovsky ) and poets ( Ingeborg Bachmann , Jaan Kaplinski and János Pilinszky ).
Besides poet Jan Baeke is translator of Lavinia Greenlaw, Liz Lochhead and Deryn Rees-Jones. He worked at the Dutch Film Museum in Amsterdam. Since 2009 he is connected to Poetry International .
You play a game.
You work according to the rules, but don't say, afterwards
give him a day to get out of sight.
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Not a sound. Not a single sound.
Something in the mechanism had been moved
as a result of which the dog failed to bark.
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So beautiful, so useful, so unrelenting
this moon, while you are sitting next to me
while flowers bounce off you
and none of my words or glances
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One thing holds, the other does not.
Today two hours of yesterday's repeats.
We have plenty of time, take note:
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It's right, but not because it's true.
I have walked around for an hour.
Always the same window, not even a clear view.
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