In 1979 Peter Glassgold edited for New Directions a collection of seven poets of the group of Dutch writers known as the Fiftiers, who, having grown up during Word War II, came of age as poetic and visual experimenters in the 1950s. In 2005, Green Integer publisher Douglas Messerli took the original anthology, the work of various translators, and, along with Glassgold, expanded it to include more poems, updated bibliographical material, and two further poets of that original group, as well as the original Dutch poems in a new bilingual volume. This revised and enlarged edition, number 6 of Messerli’s ongoing PIP [Project for Innovative Poetry] Anthologies of World Poetry of the 20th Century, the editors hope will further reveal the significance of these important literary figures.

Green Integer. 2005.