A mail art work from Cathérine Petré between the collected poems of Vasalis and a biography on Vasalis in one of my book cases.
M. Vasalis (1909-1998) wrote the most gripping and finest, elegant poetry in the Dutch language. She refused to publish poetry any more after world war 2 and the loss of a child. For her a personal loss connected with a general historical one (the holocaust). While Celan and Adorno were debating "if it was still possible to write poems after the extermination camps of the nazis", she answered this by absolute silence and a non publication of her poems. The last poetry book was published after she died (in 2002, a collection of poems under the title "the old coast line") and contains some of the greatest poems I've ever had the privilege to read in my life!
(GV)
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