The World by Evening Tractatus Philosophico-Poetico and consequences of

and consequences of

rebellious

exhilarating book of poems

a series of poems which read as an attempt to speed-write the still-life image

Peter France—who has been brilliantly translating Mandelstam’s work for decades—draws heavily from Mandelstam’s later poetry written in Voronezh

The World by Evening Tractatus Philosophico-Poetico and consequences ofMenno Wigman Menno Wigman (1966 2018) is one of the most celebrated poets in the Netherlands, with many awards to his name, and his early death sent shock waves through the Dutch literary world. His work has been placed in the tradition of European Romanticism. At times echoing Baudelaire, and equally preoccupied with the darker sides of urban life, Wigman has been called the dandy of disillusion. But his poems are never indulgent and tend to move