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

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Sarah Dobbs

If the ‘form is the measure of the obsession’ then this collection is a lifelong obsession with the truth-telling nature of art

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