Grand Larcenies: Translations and Imitations of Ten Dutch Poets Doctor/patient relationship With the full battery of

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the dramatic consequences will tie them together — forever

”—Patry Francis

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Grand Larcenies: Translations and Imitations of Ten Dutch Poets Doctor/patient relationship With the full battery ofGrand Larcenies features generous selections from the work of ten classic modern Dutch poets. The translator, a notable Welsh poet now living in Holland, takes his bearings from Robert Minhinnick's seminal Welsh anthology The Adulterer's Tongue, which attempts by means of experiment rather than rigid linguistic fidelity to approach the imaginative core of the original. 'These versions take risks,' Evans declares; 'they are no black and white