Coetzee on Claus
J.M. Coetzee applauds the intelligence and passion of Hugo Claus’ poetry, “a medium over which he has such light-fingered control that art becomes invisible.”
J.M. Coetzee applauds the intelligence and passion of Hugo Claus’ poetry, “a medium over which he has such light-fingered control that art becomes invisible.”
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Scrotum is not a dirty word: the t-shirt. (Via; for background, go here.)