A widowed water bird in an Amsterdam canal abandoned villages flitting fitfully by as he rides the Eurostar to Paris the sun, averse to setting, extending the you-filled day such are the diverse sources of inspiration for Brinckmanns poetry.
Unconstrained by locale or subject matter, his lines celebrate the marvel of love and ponder lifes irretrievable losses. He is no stranger to whimsy either, nor to the search for lifes ultimate meaning.
After publishing a highly-acclaimed autobiography (The Magatama Doodle, 2005); a cosmopolitan collection of stories (Noon Elusive, 2006); and a history of postwar Japan (Showa Japan, 2008), Brinckmann now offers his readers this selection of his poetry, written over the past half-century in seven countries. The book ends with the memorable Ballad of Hope Hill, set to music and performed in The Netherlands.
Brinckmanns translator, Hiromi Mizoguchi, has rendered the poems into exquisite Japanese, shown side-by-side with the originals.
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Hans Brinckmann, born in The Hague, has been writing poetry and prose from his early teens. In the bleakness of post-war Holland he had to postpone his plans to become a writer and joined an international bank instead. After a career that took him to Japan, the U.S. and other countries, he turned to full-time writing at age 56 and has since published several books of fiction and non-fiction. In 1986 he was made an Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau for ‘cultural and professional achievement.’
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www.habri.jp(English/Japanese)
www.habri.co.uk(English)
Hiromi Mizoguchi, translator, born in Tokyo, holds an MA from the Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University. She has translated most of Brinckmann’s writings into Japanese.
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