Mark Boog Biography
Mark Boog ( Utrecht , September 24, 1970 ) is a Dutch poet and novelist .
Arch studied artificial intelligence in his birthplace in Utrecht for a short while, and then worked with the PTT . In 1995, he debuted as a poet in the magazine De Appel . After that he was active in a writer collective, which included the magazine Mondzeer and the Giant Lobster . In 2000, Boogs first close beam appeared as if something happened ( Meulenhoff ), which he won the C. Buddingh' award . In 2006 he won the VSB Poetry Prize for his bundle The Encyclopedia of the Big Words .
In 2001, Boog debuted as novelist with the novel De vuistslag (Meulenhoff). In the years to come, close bundles and novels followed each other very quickly. Boog also publishes in literary journals as the Dutch magazine and The Guide and occasionally performs.
Boog's work is characterized by a combination of commonality and despair. This applies both to his language and to his subject choice. By critics, the tone of his work is compared to very diverse writers like Gerard Reve and Arjen Duinker .
Mark Boog has a wife and four children.
Salt seeker - seeing tall waves with wide eyes,
not knowing how to catch. But in the stagnant
the selfish only find themselves, and of silence
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Water, aspirin, you. The sun burns!
The wind strikes holes into the leaves!
It grips! Time crowing ticks
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Small house, but throw a ball through it some time
and it becomes quite large. See all those metres,
aren't they ours? And stroll perhaps as if
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So it must be:
as - no other way! - trees in the city
reaching for the sky, as we are for the evening,
as time passing us by, as we to each other.
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With ever greater playful ease
I counter the attacks
on my hard-won indifference.
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