I Am a Field Full of Rapeseed, Give Cover to Deer and Shine Like Thirteen Oil Paintings Laid One on Top of the Other - Couverture rigide

Sandig, Ulrike Almut

 
9780857427373: I Am a Field Full of Rapeseed, Give Cover to Deer and Shine Like Thirteen Oil Paintings Laid One on Top of the Other
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ISBN 10 : 0857427377 ISBN 13 : 9780857427373
Editeur : Seagull Books London Ltd, 2020

Synopsis

“we find ourselves deep in the future of fairy tale.
we are the offspring of our own imaginings.”
 
Ulrike Almut Sandig’s second volume of poems to be translated into English is a journey through a world that is imaginary yet entirely recognizable. Precise observation of the concrete is mixed with playful humor, inspired musicality, and an anxious reckoning with undercurrents of violence. Borrowing from the Brothers Grimm, the collection explores the darker side of their fairy tales as a backdrop for very contemporary concerns: Migration, war, the rise of the new right, ecological threat, information overload, and political apathy. At the same time, Sandig plays with the German meaning of the word “Grimm”: rage. That emotion permeates the collection as a reaction to the darkness in the collective German consciousness. Yet the book is also animated by the passionate, expansive empathy―and reminds us what it is to be human. Always inventive, Sandig teases us here with multiple versions of the self, and multiple voices all in search of the origins of poetry in hidden places: in the silence before language, in the wings, in the field of rapeseed deep in the snow.

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À propos des auteurs

Born in former East Germany in 1979, Ulrike Almut Sandig has written two books of short stories, and four volumes of poetry as well as a novel. In 2021 she was invited to give the prestigious Thomas-Kling Poetics Lectures.

Karen Leeder is a writer, translator, and academic, and teaches German at New College, Oxford, where she works on modern poetry. For Seagull Books, she has translated works by Durs Grünbein, Ulrike Almut Sandig, and Michael Krüger.

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Éditeur
Seagull Books London Ltd
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0857427377
ISBN 13 
9780857427373
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
80
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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9781803091853: I Am a Field Full of Rapeseed, Give Cover to Deer and Shine Like Thirteen Oil Paintings Laid One on Top of the Other

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ISBN 10 :  1803091851 ISBN 13 :  9781803091853
Editeur : Seagull Books London Ltd, 2023
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