Shiny Mystery
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Paperback with flaps, 48 pages.
hand tied
€ 15.00
ISBN 9789083018379
Anthology of the poems of PC Boutens compiled by Simon Mulder with a foreword by Dr. Marco Gold.
PC (Pieter Cornelis) Boutens (1870-1943) grew up in Middelburg, in a strict Protestant family. After a career as a teacher of classical languages at the boys' boarding school Noorthey in Voorschoten, he settled in The Hague. There he was able to focus more on literature with private lessons and the support of friends and admirers. His work bears witness to Plato's philosophy: the soul tends beyond earthly life, towards a higher world. Besides this seership there is also a silence in his work: this higher can only be approximated in words - and besides that he also had to keep silent about his homosexuality. In his poems he celebrates the beauty of nature, his sense of God and the sublime love that transcends life and death. Boutens's poetry shows an affinity with that of Herman Gorter and JH Leopold, but finds its own way in his later collections, in a rich, glossy style, which reveals deep secrets for the attentive reader.
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Fragment from Groningen
1.
Groningen was the start
of the world, the pure
jumping sea came here
calm down, the first
islands, to cold fire
of the surf, the high
land, seven days wide;
everything speaks the secret language
of the truth, there is
space emergence and future,
everything belongs together.
Add the women in it,
the ancestral mothers of men;
like a seed crop fertile
let men be there too,
children of the light
who propagate love
who invent peace
along the human path.
Then the city is built,
well and good, then living
death and life together
within walls of time.
are living stones
graced with one voice:
A-houses, A-church they are called,
erected high.
Grunnen
1.
Grunning was started
of world, pure
jumping sea came here
tou bedoaren, first
aailanden, tou cold fire
of crushers, t high
land, zeuven doag weed;
ales speaks sharky toal
from woarhaid, there is
glory arose and future,
ales heurt bie mekoar.
Voug vraauwlu doarien,
tribesmen of people;
as a crop fruiting boar
loat also manlu doar orphans,
kid of the light
give thigh laifde door
thigh peace oetvienden
as people doun.
Den is city baauwd,
gold and give, the dwelling
dead and alive with nkander
within walls of tied.
Leventege staining inside
blessed with one voice:
A-hoes, A-church haiten zai,
towering one.