An English Anthology by Leonard Nolens, trans. by Paul Vincent Ken Smith such as Fleur Adcock

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Arcimboldo's famous seventeenth-century Mannerist portraits

devising a transformative poetics

By the end

An English Anthology by Leonard Nolens, trans. by Paul Vincent Ken Smith such as Fleur Adcock'I was born in Belgium, Im Belgian. But Belgium was never born in me. So writes Leonard Nolens in Place and Date, which captures a mood of political and social disillusionment amid a generation of Dutch speaking Belgians. And throughout this selection we encounter a poet engaged with the question of national identity. Frequently the poet moves into that risky terrain, the first person plural, in which he speaks as and for a generation of Flemings,