LEADER 03009 am 22004933u 450 001 9910315235303321 005 20230621141105.0 010 $a9781947447493$b(ePDF) 010 $a1947447491$b(ePDF) 010 $z9781947447486$b(print) 010 $z1947447483$b(print) 024 7 $a10.21983/P3.0195.1.00 035 $a(CKB)4100000007823970 035 $a(OAPEN)1004661 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/31332 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007823970 100 $a20200123h20182018 fy p 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmu#---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aOf great importance /$fNachoem M. Wijnberg 210 $aBrooklyn, NY$cpunctum books$d2018 210 1$a[Santa Barbara, California] ;$aEarth, Milky Way :$cpunctum books,$d2018. 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (131 pages) $cillustrations; PDF, digital file(s) 311 08$aPrint version: ?z 9781947447486 330 $aOf Great Importance is Nachoem Wijnberg?s 16th volume of poetry. One of the most prominent living Dutch writers, Wijnberg?s poetry is known for its deceptively plain language and his poems, according to the poet himself, can be read well by anyone who can read a newspaper. The poems in Of Great Importance engage with statecraft, economics, and world history, lyricizing taxes and debts, stocks and flows, citizenship and labor contracts, notaries and accountants, factories and strikes, freedoms and fundamental rights, banks and railroads, property rights and codes of honor, sieges and treaties, gods and generals, how to make money and how to win elections, when to declare war and when to found a new state. Wijnberg?s engagement with these and other related topics is based on his belief that economics, politics, and history ? and all of the tangled relations therein, no matter how asymmetrical ? concern how people live together, and his poetry is a creative form of historiography that attends to tracing the theater of an affective commonwealth, in which he builds upon the best work of those thinkers and poets who came before ? including Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, Heinrich Heine, Czes?aw Mi?osz, and especially C.P. Cavafy. Ultimately, Wijnberg understands that ?Something important that changes the world only happens if there is a lever with a fulcrum you cannot know enough about,? and yet his poetry gorgeously illuminates this fulcrum. 606 $aDutch poetry 606 $aPoetry by individual poets$2bicssc 610 $apoetry 610 $aworld history 610 $ageopolitics 610 $aeconomics 610 $astatecraft 615 0$aDutch poetry. 615 7$aPoetry by individual poets 700 $aWijnberg$b Nachoem M.$f1961-$0904308 702 $aColmer$b David$f1960- 801 2$bUkMaJRU 912 $a9910315235303321 996 $aOf great importance$92189120 997 $aUNINA