Belgian Women Poets: An Anthology

by Judy Cochran (Editor), Renée Linkhorn

Designed to acquaint an English-speaking public with an important aspect of Belgian literature, this bilingual anthology includes poems and prose poems by twenty-eight women, presented in chronological order according to their date of birth. A biobibliographical summary introduces each author. A wide variety of themes, styles, moods, and poetic movements are represented. The foreword offers a general survey of the Belgian poetic scene from a literary and sociological point of view.

Genres: Poetry

479 pages, Hardcover

First published April 5, 2000

Reviews

[Edita · Rating 3 out of 5]

We must paint our inner seas; the seas in our memories …
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Here I desire nothing but summer and its respite.
The leisure of warm weather,
The day’s shoulder to lean on.

To hold your hand once more, to come and wake the dawn.

To erase all till nightfall, to cancel, disown myself.
To be immersed in you,
To vouch for your laughter.
To let the seasons flow until the day staggers
Or falls to its knees.

I want the night to die.
I want to die in you.
Summer will then be ashes,
A charred morning will lie along the shore.

And I, for loving you, will have
My hands flecked with salt spray,
My lips bruised by blades of grass.

[EIJANDOLUM · Rating 5 out of 5]

“This is you, poetry,
disturbing and disturbed:
plunging into dark waters,
to find the brightness of pulpous dawns.”

Jeanine Moulin