`I was born in Belgium, I’m 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
firstperson plural, in which he speaks as and for a generation of
Flemings, embodying an attitude towards artistic and political
commitment that he considers its defining mark. `We curled up
dejectedly in the spare wheel of May sixtyeight’, he writes in
the selection’s central sequence `Breach’. Nolens’ poetry is
haunted by giants of twentieth-century European lyricism, by Rilke,
Valéry, Neruda, Mandelstam and Celan, with whom he has arguably
more affinity than with much poetry from the Dutch-language canon.
General
| Imprint: |
Carcanet Press Ltd
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
November 2018 |
| Authors: |
Leonard Nolens
|
| Translators: |
Paul Vincent
|
| Dimensions: |
216 x 135 x 10mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
128 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-78410-574-7 |
| Subtitles: |
Dutch
|
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-78410-574-0 |
| Barcode: |
9781784105747 |
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