Goya As Dog: Selected Poems by Stefan Hertmans, translated by Donald Gardner J H Prynne Janna Ajmal

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Goya As Dog: Selected Poems by Stefan Hertmans, translated by Donald Gardner J H Prynne Janna AjmalBetter known in the Anglophone world as a novelist (War and Turpentine, The Ascent, The Convert), Stefan Hertmans is also an essayist, a dramatist, and, from the very beginning, a poet. Initially influenced by the concise art of the German poet, Paul Celan, Hertmans' work later opened up, using longer forms. This selected edition represents the full range of his work. 'With its insistent musicality, Hertmans' poetry lodges itself in the reader's