Goya As Dog: Selected Poems by Stefan Hertmans, translated by Donald Gardner 2016 But the poems celebrate joy

But the poems celebrate joy and tenderness

and the human mind can do

“The griot has committed to the page

On each swim

and always the sense of further stories unfolding behind the scenes

Goya As Dog: Selected Poems by Stefan Hertmans, translated by Donald Gardner 2016 But the poems celebrate joyBetter known in the Anglophone world as a novelist (War and Turpentine, The Ascent, The Convert), Stefan Hertmans is also an essayist, a dramatist, and, from the very beginning, a poet. Initially influenced by the concise art of the German poet, Paul Celan, Hertmans' work later opened up, using longer forms. This selected edition represents the full range of his work. 'With its insistent musicality, Hertmans' poetry lodges itself in the reader's