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b. 1947 - d. 2002

Gertrude Starink ( Breda , 30 september 1947 - St Ives (Cornwall) , 9 July 2002 ) (maiden Ruth Smulders, pseudonym around 1970 Ruth Sabatier) was a Dutch poet and translator. She was also a freelance assistant literary radio programs by KRO -radio.

Starink published in twenty-five years of poetry with seventy-five "passages". These passages each consist of one or more poems. All bundles carry the title The Road to Egypt. The subtitles are respectively "Twenty Passages 1970-1977", "Seventeen Passages 1977-1985," A Passage 1985-1993 "," Seventeen Passages 1993-1999 "and" Twenty Passages 1999 ". Piet Keijsers a dissertation [1] wrote the poems of Starink indicates that the five strands together to form composed entirely symmetrical, ie the first poem of the first beam and the last poem of the fifth volume are formally agreed, likewise the second poem of the first beam and the penultimate poem of the fifth beam, and so on, up to the middle two poems of the third beam which break through the symmetry. This construction implies that the third beam may be regarded as "the little symmetry." the great symmetry of the five bundles was not originally planned, but occurred while writing to the poet for.

Prior to the five volumes published under the pseudonym Starink ruth sabatier in-house in 1971, a bundle called "the road to Egipte." Ruth probably referred to her maiden name Ruth Smulders and Sabatier could refer to a mistress of Baudelaire. The bundle contains sixteen poems from 1970 and 1971. There is no question of "passages", but there are several substantive agreements with the subsequent five bundles.

Her poems have been published by Athenaeum-Polak & Van Gennep in Amsterdam between 1980 and 2000. The first volume was published a second edition in 1993. Ten years after her death, the work in 2012, reissued in one part by The Seer Balan in Aalst. In this latest edition have been counted by the passages, emphasizing the unity of the work.
Criticism

The reviewers of hair bundles found her poems interesting, but also difficult to understand. The reader is confronted with problems that largely the same as in other modern poetry. The impact, however, between the strict formal structure of the bundles and the elusiveness of the narrative-like content, typical for Starink. The predictable regularity of form raises expectations regarding the content and always be those expectations proved wrong. Again and again appears to be missing essential information. The indeterminacy which it creates can be summed up with "lack", a term which the poet also used in the fourth beam itself (ninth passage). Keijsers Calls for the beams to read a reasoned paintings exhibition. Each poem is like a painting; one can keep the suggested order of the exhibition, but one can also anticipate and back.

Willem Jan Otten once observed "(...) that with language in the weather is like a child playing with her ??doll." [2] After Starinks death in 2002 wrote Gerrit Komrij in NRC Handelsblad: "[She] in the wrong branch of art lost because they believe that they could close it. " [3] Then accused Anneke Brassinga Komrij them with vulgar clogs dance on someone's grave. [4]
Tribute

For the third beam Starink received the 1996 Herman Gorter Prize . According to the jury the bundle contains highly intriguing poetry, which has been a traditional poetic language and style.

The fifth collection was nominated in 2001 for the VSB Poetry .

In 2011 she was at Poetry International honored with its dedicated program.
Marriage and death

Gertrude Starink married in 1977 with Jan Starink (1927-2014), which her ??Dutch teacher was in high school and later deployed many literary activities, including for KRO radio. Gertrude and Jan Starink lived from 1985 until her death in St. Ives , Cornwall, where they have a small antiquarian bookshop, The Mirror and the Lamp. Pictures and Poetry, had. Gertrude Starink also made ??it visual art ( collages ).

After a long illness Starink died in 2002. She is in the village Phillack , on the other side of the St. Ives Bay , buried. Jan Starink returned to the Netherlands and died in Den Bosch on June 18, 2014.