Pieter van den Hoogenband

Pieter van den Hoogenband or the Soporifer of the Māori A word to the reader of this book Writing poems is not a that difficult thing to do — providing of course you have this „something“ for it, right? — writing is easy, if you do — but to become a reader of poetry is not easy, it needs a lot of imagination, intuition, patience and most of all the determination to look for nonpublic, secret rules. The readers of poetry are a fellowship of initiates. Ivan Wernisch Translation by Miroslav Fišmeister and Cynthia Plachá. Second edition.