Gaston Burssens
# Gaston Burssens

Gaston Karel Mathilde Burssens (18 February 1896 – 29 January 1965) was a Belgian Expressionist poet. He studied at the Dutch-language Von Bissing University in Ghent during the German occupation of Belgium during World War I.

## Biography

Like that of Paul van Ostaijen, during the 1920s his work evolved from humanitarian expressionism towards a more organic expressionism – upon which his poetry stayed focused on musicality. Van Ostaijen's not earlier published poems were published posthumously by Burssens.

Burssens received the 'Driejaarlijkse Prijs voor Poëzie', a reward for poetry granted every third year, for 1950–52, and once again for 1956–58.

## Works

* 1918 Verzen
* 1919 De Yadefluit
* 1920 Liederen uit de stad en uit de sel
* 1924 Piano
* 1926 Enzovoort
* 1930 Klemmen voor zangvogels
* 1933 Paul van Ostaijen zoals hij was en is
* 1935 French en andere cancan
* 1941 De eeuw van Pericles
* 1943 Elegie
* -- Floris Jespers
* 1945 Fabula rasa
* 1946 12 niggersongs
* 1952 Pegasos van Troja
* -- Boy
* 1954 Ode
* 1956 Floris Jespers
* -- Paul van Ostaijen
* -- Het neusje van de inktvis
* 1956 Debuut met Plagiaat
* 1958 Adieu
* 1961 Posthume verzen
* 1981 Verzameld proza
* 2005 Alles is mogelijk in een gedicht. Verzamelde verzen 1914-1965
