A Translated Man

by Robert Sheppard

Robert Sheppard has given this book over to his own invention, the fictional Belgian poet Ren Van Valckenborch. Apparently writing in both Flemish and Walloon, and translated and edited by entities as shadowy (and dodgy) as himself, Van Valckenborch's split oeuvre derives from the linguistic and cultural divide within contemporary Belgium. By the time Van Valckenborch disappears into poetic silence he seems an enigma of his own making, a comic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848612842
• ISBN13: 9781848612846
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Shearsman Books
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"