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Sedert sy debuut in 1969 met die bundel Orpheushanden het Leonard
Nolens hom gevestig as een van die beduidendste Vlaamse digters van
ons tyd. Drie versamelbundels het reeds van sy omvangryke oeuvre
verskyn en sy poesie het talle Vlaamse en Nederlandse pryse
ontvang, onder meer die Jan Campert- en Constantijn Huygens-pryse,
die VSB-prys en die Prijs der Nederlandse letteren. Vir hierdie
versameling Afrikaanse vertalings het Daniel Hugo veral gekies uit
gedigte oor Antwerpen, die stad waar Nolens woon en werk; die
agtergrond van talle gedigte wat soms ook as stilswyende
gespreksgenoot vir die digter optree. Die ander durende
gespreksgenoot is sy geliefde. Leonard Nolens is 'n liefdesdigter
sonder gelyke in die moderne Nederlandse letterkunde. Nolens skryf
ook oor onderwerpe soos musiek, ander Europese lande en oor die
mens se stryd om met homself tot 'n vergelyk te kom.
`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.
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