The Refrain of Other People's Lives

Poetry. Translated from the Dutch by John Irons. Isn't everyone the 'refrain of other people's lives?' This collection has to do with the feeling that your own life is determined by other people. Arnold Jansen op de Haar moved from Arnhem to London in 2014. His emigration brought everything into focus. The poems of this collection combine to form a story. What makes somebody the person he is? What do you do when everyone has disappeared and you are the last one? Arnold Jansen op de Haar, shuttling between two countries, sets out in search of his history. 'I am the refrain of / other people's lives / I repeat a self- evident truth.'