This year, at Vantilt publishers, there will be the first separate edition of the poetry book De Feesten van Angst en Pijn (The Feasts of Fear and Pain).
It was written 1918-1921 by Flemish poet Paul van Ostaijen, a pioneer of expressionism and visual poetry.
Source: Dutch poetry blog De Contrabas.
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The English Wikipedia article about him, with a graphic poem example, is at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_van_Ostaijen
Poetry International about him:
http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poet/item/6636/28/Paul-van-Ostaijen
Unfortunately, the links there to poems don’t work anymore.
It does mention English translations:
Feasts of fear and agony (English), New Directions, New York, 1976
The first book of Schmoll: selected poems 1920-1928 (English), Bridges Books, Amsterdam, 1982
The first book of Schmoll: selected poems 1920-1928 (English). Los Angeles: Green Integer, in preparation
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This is a video of musiic, inspired by the poetry book.
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