Before Lyricism Radna Rumping An imaginative exercise in the

An imaginative exercise in the elasticity of ekphrasis

or better not

#evolutionarypoems is resistance in silence

between romance and objectivity

in Belgium

Before Lyricism Radna Rumping An imaginative exercise in theEleni 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