This important volume gathers work from Herman Hesse Prize winner,
German-Language Swiss poet Klaus Merz's fifteen collections of
poetry, from 1963-2016. This important volume gathers work from
Herman Hesse Prize winner, German-Language Swiss poet Klaus Merz's
fifteen collections of poetry, from 1963-2016. Throughout his
career, Swiss Poet Klaus Merz has been praised as an artisan of the
understatement, and it is precisely in these smallest of details
that the great unexpected has the potential to be illuminated. As
Merz himself has said: "The poetry nudges toward a secret,
hopefully without ostentation, rather through the power of its own
alphabet." This seminal volume brings together selections from
Merz's fifteen collections of poetry (1963-2016). "Reading Merz'
spare illuminating poems is like entering Plato's cave and
witnessing the light behind the shadows." -Nin Andrews "Merz takes
careful notes, thinking and feeling himself into his subject as if
from fragments. A strange exhilaration, curiously impersonal yet
packed with personality." -Brian Swann "Merz' world is a shimmering
window onto beauty and insight, so precisely understated that many
of the poems border on the hypnotic and can be read time and time
again. It's no wonder that so many are short, eight or ten lines or
less: his eye and ear are both so incisive that if he wrote at too
great length the resultant intensity could be painful. Merz is a
poet who expands and deepens with his conciseness, who embodies
imagism's implied aesthetic of 'less is more.'"-Lit Pub "An artisan
of the understatement, a craftsman of finely-tuned precision."
-Neue Zuricher Zeitung Klaus Merz was born in 1945 in Aarau and
lives in Unterkulm, Switzerland. He has won many literary awards
including the Hermann Hesse Prize for Literature, Swiss Schiller
Foundation Poetry Prize and the Friedrich Hoelderlin Prize in 2012.
He has published over 35 works of poetry and fiction. His latest
novel is The Argentinian (Der Argentine, Haymon, 2009) and his
recent collections of verse are Out of the Dust (Aus dem Staub,
Haymon, 2010), Unexpected Development (Unerwarteter Verlauf,
Haymon, 2013), What Helios Hauls (Helios Transport, Haymon 2016)
and firm (firma, Haymon, 2019) Marc Vincenz is a poet, translator,
fiction writer, editor, musician and artist. He has published over
30 books of poetry, fiction and translation. His work has been
published in The Nation, Ploughshares, Raritan, Colorado Review and
The Los Angeles Review of Books. He is publisher and editor of
MadHat Press and publisher of New American Writing. His newest
books are There Might Be a Moon or a Dog (Gazebo, Australia, 2022)
and The Pearl Diver of Irunmani (White Pine Press, forthcoming
2023).
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