Amazon.com description: Product Description: Ten Berge, well known in the Netherlands for his poetry, prose fiction, essays, and translations is introduced to English readers here.... A passionate voice"" - World Literature Today. ""The visionary intensity and the worldwide cultural imagery evident...make it worthy of attention from anyone looking for models of European work in the post-European-hegemony centuries. Ten Berge is conversant with Noh drama, the fate of the Cathars, Flemish painting, paleolithic art, and Syrian dynasties, and he unpacks his portmanteau for the alert and dedicated reader"" - Booklist.