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Mens Dier Ding by Alfred Schaffer (De Bezige Bij)

MAN ANIMAL THING by Alfred Schaffer

Pieter Vandermeer
November 18, 2014
‘This volume insistently examines phenomena such as “power”, “violence”, “lust” and “myth”. Schaffer shows that the boundaries between man, animal and thing, as well as between literary genres, are often thin.’ – jury report for the 2015 VSB Poetry Prize

The poems listed below from Men Dier Ding (Man Animal Thing), nominated for the VSB Poetry Prize, were translated from the Dutch by Michele Hutchinson.
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