Esther Jansma Comments

from Wikipedia: Esther Jansma (born 24 December 1958) is a Dutch writer and academic. She was born in Amsterdam and works as an archaeologist. Jansma published her first collection of poetry Stem onder mijn bed (Voice under my Bed) in 1988. In 1990, she published Bloem, steen (Flower, Stone) , which reflected her feelings after her first child died at birth. Jansma is a professor in the Geosciences department at Utrecht University.

“This is poetry that oscillates between dazzling exuberance and bitter seriousness, between the ever-renewable game of words and the irrevocability of death. It is poetry that, due to its refined form, demonstrates the degree to which playing and understanding are interrelated.” Koen Vergeer in Ons Erfdeel