Before Lyricism Radna Rumping ’s Notes of Thought and

’s Notes of Thought and Vision (City Lights Publishers

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Het boek is daarom een uitstekend hulpmiddel

And so it adapts to the conditions it is given

Before Lyricism Radna Rumping ’s Notes of Thought andEleni Vakalo Winner of the 2018 Best Translated Book Award for Poetry, Before Lyricism includes six book length poems: "The Forest" (1954), "Plant Upbringing" (1956), "Diary of Age" (1958), "Description of the Body" (1959), "The Meaning of the Blind" (1962), and "Our Way of Being in Danger" (1966). Each of these, apart from Plant Upbringing, was published as a separate book, which Vakalo herself designed. (Plant Upbringing was originally included in