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Father`s on the Phone with the Flies – A Selection
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Ideal for readers interested in avant-garde poetry, visual arts, and contemporary literature, especially those fascinated by innovative uses of language and collage art.
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An unexpected, exciting work from one of the most protean writers ever to win the Nobel Prize.
To create the poems in this collection, Herta Müller cut up countless newspapers and magazines in search of striking phrases, words, or even fragments of words, which she then arranged in the form of a collage. Father’s on the Phone with the Flies presents seventy-three of Müller’s collage poems for the first time in English translation, alongside full-color reproductions of the originals.
Müller takes full advantage of the collage form, generating poems rich in wordplay, ambiguity, and startling, surreal metaphors—the disruption and dislocation at their core rendered visible through stark contrasts in colour, font, and type size. Liberating words from conformity and coercion, Müller renders them fresh and invests them forcefully with personal experience.
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“By any measure, Father’s on the Phone with the Flies deserves to be on the list of the best poetry books of 2018.” Rain Taxi
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ISBN: 9781803090450
Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 23 September 2022
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Seagull Books London Ltd
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 12.0mm
Width: 127.0mm
Height: 202.0mm
Weight: 226g
Pages: 200
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About the Author
Herta Müller was born in a German-speaking community in western Romania in 1953. She published her first collection of short stories in 1982. In 1987, she left Romania for West Berlin, where she continued to write and publish. She has been awarded numerous prizes, including the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature. Thomas Cooper has translated works of poetry and prose in German and Hungarian by many celebrated contemporary authors.
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