{"product_id":"jan-willem-anker-i-didnt-know-what","title":"Jan-Willem Anker, I didn't know what","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eI didn't know what\u003c\/em\u003e the Dutch writer and poet Jan-Willem Anker zooms in on the senseless little adventures that shape the post-Christian and consumerist life of the Western male. This collection of prose poems is filled with mini conundrums, problems, ephemera or witticisms that look as though they could impart a narrative but choose to go down an unexpected trajectory. Jan-Willem’s texts pull short of the Borges labyrinths and enter a graceful lyrical world of complex moods and wisecracks. If they are poems of a philosopher they are also poems of a prankster, a kind of anecdotally clear-thinking Žižek. \u003cem\u003eI didn’t know what\u003c\/em\u003e is Anker’s first book in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJan-Willem Anker wrote three collection of poetry in Dutch: Inzinkingen [‘Relapses’] in 2005, \u003cem\u003eDonkere arena\u003c\/em\u003e [‘Dark Arena’] in 2006, followed in 2009 by a small collection of love poems titled \u003cem\u003eWij zijn de laatste geliefden in de wereld\u003c\/em\u003e [‘We Are the Last Lovers in the World’]. He has also been a programmer for Rotterdam’s Poetry International Festival. His work has been translated into French and German. In 2012 he published the historical novel \u003cem\u003eEen beschaafde man\u003c\/em\u003e (A Civil Man) based on the life of the notorious British art collector Lord Elgin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJan-Willem Anker, \u003cem\u003eI didn't know what\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e80pp. 2012. ISBN 978 1 922181 01 5\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":240977699,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/anker_didntknow_cover.jpg?v=1347951786","url":"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/de\/products\/jan-willem-anker-i-didnt-know-what","provider":"Vagabond Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}