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The plural of happiness : selected poems of Herman de Coninck

Title
The plural of happiness : selected poems of Herman de Coninck / translated by Laure-Anne Bosselaar and Kurt Brown ; foreword by Charles Simic.
Author
Coninck, Herman de.
Publication
Oberlin, Ohio : Oberlin College Press, [2006], ©2006.

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Additional Authors
  • Bosselaar, Laure-Anne, 1943-
  • Brown, Kurt.
Description
xvii, 92 pages; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Field translation series ; 28
Uniform Title
  • Poems. Selections. English
  • Field translation series ; 28.
Alternative Title
Poems.
Subject
Contents
"I come from far away" -- "The way you came in and said hello" -- "What a lack of pathos" -- "Will I be unable to shut up" -- "When the sun shouts golden orders" -- "And she hugged him with all her sins" -- "Fat-assed. Settling into the power" -- "Smack in the heart of July" -- Sailor's song -- "What a great idea of her parents" -- "Your sweaters" -- "Half the time during the day, I slept" -- After an argument -- Poetry -- Elephant -- The rhinoceros -- Triangle -- Study in color -- Birthday poem -- Defuser of mines -- For each other -- Herault -- Time out -- Two kinds of nothing -- She and he -- Mother -- Genesis -- "He had hoped it could be done without autumn" -- "If only he could, just like that, leave her" -- In the seaport of Oostduinkerke -- Glass shards in the sun -- "For six years she learned what lasting was" -- "'Yes, sleep,' I say" -- "She has all she needs for kissing" -- On a picture by Dre Peeters -- "Just as this island belongs to the gulls" -- "Once, a fist hit the table" -- Juniper tree, Canyonlands -- Here -- Yonder -- 1958 -- Ann -- Poetry -- Snowmass village -- Paris, May 1st -- Gendray -- "Hop, in the curtains, hop on the tabletop" -- "Profession : inspector general of rhododendrons" -- Around and about -- "What will you do today?" -- Epithalamium -- Fingerprints on a window -- Evening, mid-May -- Pointillism -- November -- "Slow snowing. As if it snowed upwards" -- Last post -- "If all rivers were made of ink" -- May evening, Gendray -- Ars poetica.
ISBN
0932440304 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2006023082
  • 9780932440303
OCLC
  • ocm70407866
  • SCSB-8962202
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries