Night Boat and other poems Hopelessness ” caused severe illnesses and

” caused severe illnesses and thousands of deaths

’ zo zegt de grootvader in het lange gedicht ‘De val’ tegen zijn kleinzoon

between the living and the dead

In the wake of the Great Blackout

tells the reader: How you know me Now will be Different from how you knew me

Night Boat and other poems Hopelessness ” caused severe illnesses andMaria Barnas "Maria Barnas is a poet who has also written prose and she is a successful artist as well. Not surprisingly, her language is imbued with the mystery of how we perceive material reality. Art offers us a range of ways of looking at life. This can generate a sense of ambivalence and bewilderment in the mind of the reader and seemingly that of the poet too; the result however can be an expansion of one's horizons. Barnas attempts to find