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Posts Tagged ‘nederland’

De beste dichter van Nederland volgens Benders

Mensen vragen me uiteraard wel eens wie ik de beste dichter van Nederland vind. Is dat ter Balkt of Verhelst, wiens bundels ik vandaag binnen heb gekregen, die ik binnenkort ook zal recenseren (en m.i. moet de VSB poezieprijs volgend jaar zich op deze twee bundels concentreren waarbij ikzelf, na enig lezen, mijn conclusie alvast getrokken heb) – nee, landen moeten immers, gelijk als presidenten, de dichters krijgen die zij verdienen. De beste dichter van Nederland? Overduidelijk Willem Adelaar!

U kent ze wel, die B-films die zo slecht zijn dat ze eigenlijk gewoon steengoed zijn geworden. Willem Adelaar is zo’n B-film. Ik heb hem slechts n keer zien optreden. Een kalende man in een vaal spijkerpak, die bij elk woordje over de microfoon heen glundert naar de 12 huisvrouwen die hem overal achterna reizen en bij elk woordje uit Adelaars mond geil aan hun parelkettinkjes trekken. Adelaar, de kwaaiste niet, geeft elk van hen een netjes afgemeten portie zelfgenoegen en torpedeert de arme vrouwen met de ene geniale inval na de andere. Leest u maar even mee:

Dit is door het latende kunnen
de wil die je uit zegt te geven
komt in een langs aan langs zijn
naar de beneden gerichte verwaaiing


Heeft u wel eens last van zo’n naar beneden gerichte verwaaiing? Die het latende kunnen wil zegt te gaan uitgeven? Langs aan langs nog wel? Nou, ik kan u verzekeren dat als u naar een optreden van Willem Adelaar gaat zulke naar beneden gerichte verwaaiingen u om de oren gaan vliegen. We lezen even verder:

onder beschutting daarin te laten
tegenover het door te vloeien
van slokkende berustbaarheid


Diep. Dit is diep. Heel diep. Je slokdarmen gaan ervan in de knoop zitten. De beschutting in regel 1 symboliseert natuurlijk die verwaaiing. Willem wil hiermee zeggen dat, hoezeer de boel ook aan het verwaaiien is, de zaak ook als beschutting kan worden ervaren tegenover het ‘doorvloeien’ van die, inderdaad, slokkende berustbaarheid. Ik voel hem. U ook? Sluit aan in de rij. Zijn spijkerpak begint nu pas warm te lopen:

mort zich door aan te dringen
het gescheelde uitdragende weten
blijkt ook het zicht te kerven


Dit is natuurlijk de dubbele bodem in het gedicht, de valkuil die Adelaar daar moedwillig eigenhandig met zijn grote sociologenhanden heeft ingegraven. Voelt u hem? Die mort, die zich, nadat hij de slokkende berustbaarheid heeft overwonnen, het gescheelde uitdragende ook blijkt het zicht te kerven? Kijk, poetisch is het natuurlijk niet, maar daar gaat het bij Adelaar niet om. Adelaar wil, net als zijn Duitse Bondgenoot, vooral glunderen. Gescheeld uitgedragen glunderen, met de ogen rondkervend door de beschutting van het kreunende publiek dat zo’n overdaad aan gevoel gewoon niet meer lijden kan. Adelaar gooit er nog een laatste strofe tegenaan:

de weersomzet tot duizelen brengt
geen uitstervende nog in bereik
noem jij mij de nabijheid
keer ik de uiterlijkheden.


Geloof mij maar, na zo’n gedicht moet je het oude taartenvet van de bierviltjes schrapen. Nee, Adelaar is dan wellicht de meest lachwekkende dichter van Nederland, maar dat past uiteraard prima in het rijtje meest lachwekkende MP, meest lachwekkende DDV, etc. Adelaar is gewoon onmisbaar en voor Nederland gewoon de beste dichter die momenteel voor handen is.

Het hele gedicht kunt u hier bij Mijnheer Vianen lezen.
Comments
  • Hello!: you have a poor perception. Clearly you do not have the depth of a brain to understand the message of this movie. The movie shows more than...
  • Ryan Seymour: Why are there so many people who are convinced down to their very core that movies such as the Batman films and other pop culture...
  • Daydreamer: In de filosofie zijn er meerdere ‘soorten’ idealisme, dat is maar net of je de filosofie van Kant volgt, of die van Plato,...
  • Little Sunshine: Native Amerikaanse Indianen hebben geen Shamanen in hun Cultuur, maar Heilige Mensen en Medicijnmensen. Het is een woord afkomstig...
  • Mcan: Prachtig! Ik vind het allen al heerlijk om daar te fietsen.. laat staan me hele leven daar nog door te brengen….
  • Anthony Struth: You quoted Mark Twain to attack the dark knight because of its unrealistic genre (comic book) I find that strongly hypocritical...
  • Martijn Benders: Well, Zfree, if being wealthy is a good enough reason to be attacked by stooges then any sort of structure becomes impossible....
  • zfree: Oh those pirates mindlessly attacking the wealthy super-nationals out for a cruise dumping toxic waste in their waters and over-fishing...
  • Martijn Benders: There’s probably international laws that prohibit firing on the mothership. I know the dutch navy cant even fire guns at the...
  • Tim Michigan USA: Yes, you make some good points. There is something missing to this story, and to the story in general of fighting these pirates....
  • Martijn Benders: Well yes, they should have done something about this problem a long time ago. Who ever heard of any empire paying pirates huge...
  • FB: The stupid pirates had a pretty good gig but now they have monumentally misjudged their power and have sealed their fate. They can expect to be...
  • Martijn Benders: Yes, but also competent enough to at least lead that country for fourty years. Thats not a schoolbook definition of madness, but...
  • Compay: >That is the possibility that he is genuinely insane. He looks like an exhibitionist bag lady, like one of those awkward looking...
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