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All eight of Schierbeeks books of prose-poetry from 1951 on, which he termed compositional novels, have a musical form and contentwords as notes in a sound-defined imaginal context. De gestalte der stem, 1957 (The Shape of the Voice, 1977) is the first part of a mythologizing trilogyto give shape to what man has formed on earth, what hes performed and deformed in itthe other books of which are Het dier heeft een mens getekend, 1960 (The Animal Has Drawn a Man) and Ezel mijn bewonder, 1964 (Donkey My Inhabitant). {Guernica Editions}