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Ginneninne: English translation of the Dutch classic
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 16 2026
Pages: 98
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.23 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
GINNENINNE is not a poetry collection that merely describes a world, but one that creates an entirely new one. Here, language does not behave: it ferments, splinters, sings, mutates, and returns charged with strange new life. Words seem to grow out of frost, folklore, prayer, grief, childhood, and mischief all at once. The result is a book of rare imaginative force, at once haunted and playful, savage and tender.
What makes GINNENINNE so special is that its linguistic invention is never ornamental. The neologisms do real work: they thicken the air, alter perception, and make emotion feel newly unearthed. Every page carries the sensation that language itself is being rediscovered in the act of speaking. The poems move through ghostly villages, family legends, saints, animals, tailors, hospitals, firesides, and snow-blown thresholds, yet everything belongs to one unmistakable poetic cosmos.
This is a book for readers who are tired of safe, well-behaved poetry. It is for those who want to be surprised, unsettled, enchanted. GINNENINNE offers not just poems, but a full imaginative weather system: musical, mythic, darkly humorous, and utterly unlike anything else. You do not simply read this book. You enter it.
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