The Day That Icarus Crashed Into Our Garden - Softcover

Roggeman, Willem

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1969900180 ISBN 13: 9781969900181

Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil Publishing, 2026

Synopsis

Few writers have such an intense and lifelong relationship with the world of fine arts as the Flemish poet Willem M. Roggeman. This collection captures the poetic narrative and insight of that relationship. As the Flemish poet, artist, and critic Paul De Vree so accurately described, Willem M. Roggeman is “a painter with words.” Long recognized across Europe, Roggeman’s poetry has been translated into Icelandic, French, Italian, Greek, Polish, Serbian, and Russian, and now into English in the United States. Roggeman is a poet deeply engaged with both literature and art, composing across the borders of genre, language, and the perception of time.

Roggeman is a literary best, for he lives and breathes literature> As he himself wrote in Rhapsody in Blue (1958): ‘in every human being there is a beast.’
Marc Bungeneers

Roggeman has seen the devastation of Brussels and the blue of Hölderlin. A paradoxical poet, he transforms harsh reality through unexpected language. Each poem becomes an event the reader cannot afford to miss, written with the clarity of a young elder, free of hollow rhetoric.
Hendrik Carette

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About the Authors

Willem Maurits Roggeman is a Flemish poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and art critic. His poetry has been widely translated, and he is a regular guest at international poetry festivals. He has also published four novels, several collections of articles on artists, and highly regarded interviews with writers. He has received several literary prizes in many countries, including the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, and Lithuania.

Philippe Ernewein is a native of Turnhout, Belgium. He is the Director of Education at the Denver Academy in Denver, Colorado, USA. This is Philippe's second book of translations of Mr. Roggeman's poetry. Philippe's published work can be found at www.rememberit.org.

Edition details

• Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil Publishing
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1969900180
• ISBN 13: 9781969900181
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 124