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2020 poetry collection by Cees Nooteboom From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Afscheid, gedicht uit de tijd van het virus (Dutch: Farewell: Poem from the Time of the Virus) is a poetry collection by the Dutch writer Cees Nooteboom, published by Uitgeverij Koppernik [nl] in June 2020. The book explores Nooteboom's urge to travel, which is disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic and leads to reflections on death and the pre-Socratic philosopher Empedocles.[1][2][3][4]

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The book consists of 33 poems arranged into 3 sections of 11 poems each. Each poem consists of three quatrains followed by a separate thirteenth line. The Divine Comedy inspired the structure and meter.[1]

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