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Synopsis
A group of poems from the core member of the Vienna Group and one of Europe’s most intrepid avant-garde writers, this collection contains more than 300 poems from seven decades of writing. The poems are true to the legacies of romanticism and surrealism and exhibit the poet’s ability to push the limits of convention to reveal a deeper structure of existence, ranging from elation to abyss.
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About the Author
Friederike Mayrocker is an acclaimed Austrian writer and a Nobel Literature Prize nominee. She is the author of more than 80 books, short stories, plays, and poetry and the recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the Premio Internationale and the Georg-Buchner-Preis. Richard Dove is an author, an editor, a translator, and a former professor at the University of Exeter, the University of Regensburg, and the University of Wales. He has worked as a literary critic and reviewer and was elected a Corresponding Member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in 2006.
Review
Very consistently, in verse and prose, [Friederike Mayrocker] has combined collage procedures with fantasy and free association, relying on the imaginative power, elegance and inventiveness of her language alone to make up for the loss of referential coherence, linear plots in prose or 'subjects', as distinct from themes, in poems. Her combinations of the most disparate material have their being in total freedom. - Michael Hamburger [Mayrocker] redefines the avant-garde, producing, over the course of a lifetime, a body of work that is experimental without being impersonal, incomprehensible, or armored in intellectual pretension. - Belle Randall
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- PublisherCarcanet Press Ltd.
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1857548965
- ISBN 13 9781857548969
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages216
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