An English anthology / Leonard Nolens ; translated by Paul Vincent.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nolens, Leonard, author.

Contributor:

Vincent, Paul (Paul F.), translator.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections. English

Language:

Dutch

English

Subjects (All):

Flemish poetry--Translations into English.

Flemish poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

121 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Carcanet, 2018.

Language Note:

Translated from the Flemish.

Contents:

From Two forms of Silence (1975)

From Sung to Exhaustion and Dated p. 11

I'm no longer a son or a seer p. 11

Not to be able to write another poem p. 12

I waited and none of you came p. 13

I, Poet, carillonneur p. 14

From Legacy

From Paul Celan p. 15

Today autumn comes and eats p. 15

Invented nothing. Nothing p. 16

Washed away p. 17

You could go nowhere p. 18

It's you p. 19

In Memoriam Matris p. 20

I still have to learn you p. 21

From Incantation (1977)

From Proteus p. 22

Belief p. 22

New Land p. 24

From All the Time in the World. A Form of Poetics (1979)

From Anonymous p. 25

Undercurrent p. 25

Thursday morning, 12 October 1978... p. 26

From Homage (1981)

From Homage to the Word p. 28

From Someone Else Wrote Our Love Down Before p. 29

Iowa City 2 p. 29

From Vertigo (1983)

From Exile p. 30

Traitor p. 30

Narcissus p. 31

Slave Girl p. 32

Week p. 33

Exile p. 35

From: Exodus. Profile of Utopia p. 36

L* p. 36

L** p. 37

From The Dreamed Figure (1986)

From The Enduring Departure p. 38

Place and Date p. 38

The Enduring Departure p. 40

From Travel Expenses p. 41

Verklärte Nacht p. 41

Fright p. 42

From A Natural Street p. 43

A Natural Street p. 43

From Birth Certificate (1988)

From Tributary p. 44

Deontology p. 44

Tributary p. 45

From Times p. 46

High Fever p. 46

Sunday p. 47

Paranoia p. 48

From Loves Declarations (1990)

From Melancholy p. 49

Playing the Beast p. 49

Minimum Wage p. 50

It p. 51

From Love's Declarations p. 52

Craw p. 52

From Honey and Ash (1994)

From Etiquette p. 53

Door p. 53

From Night Vision p. 54

October Sun p. 54

From And Vanish in Moderation (1996)

From Children p. 55

My Most Solid House p. 55

Class Reunion p. 56

Between Five and Seven p. 57

Weariness p. 58

From Self-Portraits and Diary Poems p. 59

Late p. 59

From Alice p. 60

Alice p. 60

From Passer-By (1999)

From Always Tomorrow was the Journey p. 61

The Busker p. 61

Easter Letter p. 62

Blooming p. 63

From Ways of Life (2001)

From Kicking Foetus p. 64

Tristitia p. 64

Clan p. 65

White Bread p. 66

Lout p. 67

Archaic p. 68

The Clock Strikes p. 69

Scream p. 70

Clean Sweep 1 p. 71

Clean Sweep 2 p. 72

Tourist 1 p. 74

Tourist 2 p. 75

Commitment p. 76

Crowning Glory p. 77

At a Grave p. 78

From Ex-Directory p. 79

Inside and Outside p. 79

Ex-Directory p. 80

From Spy Hole p. 81

The Bourgeois p. 81

The Shy One p. 82

The Nameless Ones p. 83

The Captain of the Kursk p. 84

The infinitive p. 85

The Drinker p. 86

From Breach (2007)

From I - Flesh in Uniform is Fully Automatic p. 88

From III - We Were the Silent Ones after May 1945 p. 93

From IV - How Does My City Look When I Dream It? p. 101

From V - It Is a Splendid Book p. 106

From Desertology (2008)

From Desertology p. 107

Interview 1 p. 107

Interview 2 p. 108

From Tell the Children We're No Good (2011)

From Tell the Children We're No Good p. 109

From Blind Date p. 111

Jealous p. 111

From Motto p. 113

Bombast p. 113

Cliché p. 114.

ISBN:

1784105740

9781784105747

OCLC:

1036757558