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as mornings and mossgreen I. Step to the window

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as mornings and mossgreen I. Step to the window is a deeply personal and poetic collection by Austrian poet Friederike Mayröcker, translated superbly into English. The book presents elliptical and sometimes cryptic prose meditations that traverse memories, dreams, desires, fears, and visions. Incorporating references to figures like Derrida, Duchamp, Hölderlin, and Jean-Paul, it captures Mayröcker’s unique late lyrical style and her navigation through old age, infirmity, and solitude with vivid poetic imagination.
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This volume will appeal to readers interested in modern European poetry, experimental literary styles, and those who appreciate profound lyrical explorations of memory and existence. It is especially suited for lovers of poetic prose and art culture enthusiasts.

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Poetic prose meditations translated superbly into English.

Austrian poet Friederike Mayröcker 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 mossgreen 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, Hölderlin, and Jean-Paul all appear, almost like guides, as Mayröcker 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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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781803091426

Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 04 May 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Seagull Books London Ltd

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 5.0mm

Height: 8.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 200

About the Author

Friederike Mayröcker (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 Büchner 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.

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