Goya As Dog: Selected Poems by Stefan Hertmans, translated by Donald Gardner J H Prynne children's poetry books and so

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Sarah Dobbs

that’s simpler to say but doesn’t get at the “deadpan glamor” of this poet’s very particular kind of (un)canny—it’s both—grammar and mordant enjambment (“Be redundant / to a shamefastness / you were // made real through”) which

Goya As Dog: Selected Poems by Stefan Hertmans, translated by Donald Gardner J H Prynne children's poetry books and soBetter 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