Monk's EyeCees Nooteboom wrote the poems that make up Monks Eye on two islands: he began them on the Dutch island of Schiermonnikoog and finished them on the Spanish island of Minorca, where he has spent summers for decades. The poemswhich can be read individually or, all together, as the record of a poets lifeare about the two islands. But theyre also about islands as an archetype, about the serenity that we can find on beaches and amid dunes, the sea sweeping