As Though the Wound Had Heard Ideas Have No Smell the Herman de Coninck Prize

the Herman de Coninck Prize and De Grote Poëzieprijs

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these poems are for anyone motivated by the homoerotic and intimate etymology of comrade: one who shares the same room

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As Though the Wound Had Heard Ideas Have No Smell the Herman de Coninck PrizeMara Pastor 'Words rarely fail us. Rather, its often the other way around. A poem like Mara Pastors Man reminds me of how much we undercut and burden them with the task of unidirectional sense making. It lodges in my mindparasitic, tapeworm likefor its odd humor, unsettling ambiguity, and refusal to budge. The Busts of Mart is a comedic take on polyvocality. Mara Jos Gimnezs translations capture the quirks of Pastors playful sensibility, and what