Judith Herzberg (Pays-Bas, 1934)		La Poésie en ce temps Qui nous sommes Une asbl, pour quoi faire ? L'équipe 31 mars - 2 avril 2017 15-17 avril 2016 24-26 avril 2015 25-27 avril 2014 12-14 avril 2013 20-22 avril 2012 01-03 avril 2011 23-25 avril 2010 24-26 avril 2009 11 mars 2009 18-20 avril 2008
	Biographie		Judith Herzberg is a celebrated poet and playwright. She made her debut in the 1960s as a poet and has been writing and translating drama and screenplays since the early 1970s. For the volume Botshol (1981) she received the Jan Campert Prize; for her oeuvre she has been awarded the Joost van den Vondel Prize (1984), the Constantijn Huygens Prize (1994) and the highly prestigious P.C. Hooft Award for her poetry (1997). A recent paperback anthology of her poems Doen en laten, published in 1994, has been on the bestseller list since then. www.letterenfonds.nl/en/book/110/the-poetry-of-judith-herzberg
	Poème		What She Meant to Paint She paints what she cannot swallow cannot claim can’t explain. She paints what she can’t stay put doesn’t follow stay the same. She paints what she cannot plant cannot tame forget about. She paints what she cannot guess or get or figure out. What she can’t embrace or break can’t blame. Let slide run wild. Chop down or tear. Incinerate. Repair. She paints what makes her sleepless what she can’t recall in colour, not at all. What she can’t sing of cannot praise. The itch of blankness blankly stays. (Translated from Dutch by Shirley Kaufman)