"Just as This Island Belongs to the Gulls . . ."
by Herman de Coninck
translated by
Laure-Anne Bosselaar and Kurt Brown
Harvard Review
Number 30, 2006

Herman de Coninck

Herman de Coninck (1944-1997), poet, essayist, and critic, was editor of the Flemish weekly magazine Humo and the literary magazine Nieuw Wereld Tijdschrift. The author of many collections of poetry, his work incldes Onbegonnen werk (Hopeless Task, 1984), Enkelvoud (Singular, 1991), Schoolslag (Breaststroke, 1994), and the posthumously published Vingerafdrukken (Fingerprints).

Laure-Anne Bosselaar:

Laure-Anne Bosselaar is the author of The Hour Between Dog and Wolf and Small Gods of Grief and editor of Never Before: Poems About First Experiences (Four Way Books). The Plural of Happiness: Selected Poems of Herman de Coninck, translated by Bosselaar and Kurt Brown, will be published in 2006.

Kurt Brown:

Kurt Brown is founding director of the Aspen Writers' Conference and the national association, Writers' Conferences & Centers. He is the author of five chapbooks and four full-length collections of poetry, including Return of the Prodigals, More Things in Heaven and Earth, Fables from the Ark, and From Here, due out in 2007. A collection of the poems of the Flemish poet Herman de Coninck, The Plural of Happiness: Selected Poems of Herman de Coninck, which he and Laure-Anne Bosselaar translated, is due out in the Field Translation Series in 2007.

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