Island mountain glacier Een kinderoog and the view of the

and the view of the sea from Adnan’s window in Brittany in a poignant often painful interplay between the interior and the cosmic

on the other

Kader Abdolah

times’ passage

Throughout this book-length poem

Island mountain glacier Een kinderoog and the view of theAnne Vegter, translation Astrid Alben Island mountain glacier by acclaimed poet Anne Vegter is tumultuous, humorous, erotic, enigmatic and vulgar in equal measure. Written in an elastic, playful style that levels the playing field of what kinds of images carry poetic weight, the poems inhabit an incongruous space between everyday distractions and intimate, at times uncomfortable or disturbing questions. Vegter became the first female Poet Laureate of