
as mornings and mossgreen I. Step to the window
Seagull Books London Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 4. May 2023
Book
Hardback
200 pages
978-1-80309-142-6 (ISBN)
Description
Poetic prose meditations translated superbly into English.
Austrian poet Friederike Mayroecker is widely considered one of the most important European poets of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The last book of hers to be published during her lifetime, as mornings and moosgreen I. Step to the window is an elliptical and, if at times cryptic, deeply personal, playful, and highly poetic collection of experiences, memories, dreams, desires, fears, visions, observations, and peregrinations through landscapes both real and imagined. The volume bears witness to her unique late lyrical style of pyrotechnical cut-up. Among many others, her beloved Derrida, Duchamp, Hoelderlin, and Jean-Paul all appear, almost like guides, as Mayroecker bravely makes her way through infirmity, old age, and loneliness, prolonging her time as a prolific writer as much as possible.
Austrian poet Friederike Mayroecker is widely considered one of the most important European poets of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The last book of hers to be published during her lifetime, as mornings and moosgreen I. Step to the window is an elliptical and, if at times cryptic, deeply personal, playful, and highly poetic collection of experiences, memories, dreams, desires, fears, visions, observations, and peregrinations through landscapes both real and imagined. The volume bears witness to her unique late lyrical style of pyrotechnical cut-up. Among many others, her beloved Derrida, Duchamp, Hoelderlin, and Jean-Paul all appear, almost like guides, as Mayroecker bravely makes her way through infirmity, old age, and loneliness, prolonging her time as a prolific writer as much as possible.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Greenford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
348 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80309-142-6 (9781803091426)
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Friederike Mayroecker (1924-2021) is widely considered one of the most important Austrian poets of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The recipient of numerous awards, including the renowned Georg Buechner Prize, she published over eighty works, including poetry, prose, radio plays, and children's books. Alexander Booth is a writer and translator. He lives in Berlin.