After You Were, I Am altijd vrij " proving that history doesn't

" proving that history doesn't merely repeat itself

Both a daybook of anti-capitalist ideation and a homoerotic reinvention of the prairie long poem

Van Ostaijen joeg de Nederlandse literatuur haast in zijn eentje de razendsnelle en gewelddadige twintigste eeuw binnen

Four further collections were added to the second edition of Poems in 2005

After You Were, I Am altijd vrij " proving that history doesn'tCamille Ralphs This extraordinary debut heralds the arrival of a major new talent. In After You Were, I Am, charged moments from history collide with our own godless modern world. The book's three sections ingenious rewritings of canonical prayers, dramatic monologues from the Pendle witch trials of 1612, and the divine tragedy of the Elizabethan magus John Dee obsess over individual human characters and how our past informs (and informs on) our