num_pages: 109
description: Belgium's leading poet for many decades, Herman de Coninck has never been translated into English and collected in a single extended volume until now. Witty, tender, wise, de Coninck's poems range from playful, terse love lyrics to darkly ironic, somberly truthful observations about human experience. The ability to compress huge subjects into small, formally sculpted poems is a hallmark of his style; conversely, what might seem too small to write about is often transformed by his imagination into the very essence of things.
language: English
title: The Plural of Happiness: Selected Poems
titlecomplete: The Plural of Happiness: Selected Poems
ratings_count: 7
publisher: Oberlin College Press