Judith HerzbergJudith Herzberg is one of the most famous living poets in the Netherlands; a selection of her work, in the form of a Rainbow Pocket, published in 1994, reached what was for poetry an exceptionally large audience. Many translators have taken up the chllenge of translating her poems into other languages, which has also gained her considerable fame in other countries, but their translations - as is always the case with supreme poetry - have not been able to do any more than approach the musicality, plays on language, layers of meaning and apparent simplicity of the original. Read More Read Less