Beauty heats up, and when it comes with such cheerfulness and wisdom, both wise and young at the same time, one falls for it and is – one doesn’t know why – happy for a moment, wrote Arno Widmann about Cees Nooteboom's poetry collection "So could it be." In "Light Everywhere," it addresses the crux of human existence: being nobody and nowhere, while simultaneously being somebody and here. With cheerful despair, wise irony, and a sensual delight in the concrete, Cees Nooteboom delves into the essence of being in his new poetry collection. "Light Everywhere" gathers poems from the past ten years and showcases the great novelist, travel writer, and essayist as someone for whom poetry has been the most important companion since the beginning of his writing journey.