‘De poëzie blijft waar ze is’ – of toch niet? Herhaling, herneming en herinnering in de gedichtenbundels van Frank Koenegracht

Over a period of forty years, the Dutch poet Frank Koenegracht (Rotterdam, 1945) published nine volumes of poetry, among which are two anthologies: De verdwijning van Leiden. Gedichten 1971- 1981 (1989) and Vroege sneeuw.Gedichten1971-2003 (2003). Both volumes contain many revised versions of the previously published poems, but both anthologies show a different tendency: whereas De verdwijning van Leiden more or less represents a momentary view of literature, Vroege sneeuw to a much greater extent shows the development in Koenegracht’s poetry. But due to the whimsicality of Koenegracht’s revis... Mehr ...