That's How I Love You

Alfred Schaffer

Sometimes humorous, sometimes matter-of-fact, but always in a completely unique form. Alfred Schaffer's poetry is widely praised for its polyphony and switches effortlessly between commitment and absurdity. Schaffer received the PC Hooft Prize 2021, making him one of the youngest laureates ever of the Netherlands' most important literary oeuvre prize. Since his debut collection His rise in the suburbs (2000), which was awarded the first Jo Peters Poetry Prize, Schaffer has been able to constantly renew himself, with the critically acclaimed Wie was ik. Penal Rules (2020) as the most recent expression of his virtuoso poetry. , that's how I love you. all poems so far brings twenty years of poetry and nine collections together in one volume and shows that Schaffer is undeniably one of the best contemporary poets in the Dutch language area.