Pitch & Glint

On its original publication in 2000, Pitch & Glint was widely hailed as a landmark in German poetry. Rooted in Seiler's childhood home, an East German village brutally undermined by Soviet Russian uranium extraction, these propulsive poems are highly personal, porous, twisting, cadenced, cryptic and earthy, traversing the rural sidelines of European history with undeniable evocative force. The frailty of bodies, a nearness to materials and manual work, the unknowability of our parents' suffering, and ultimately the loss of childhood innocence, all loom large in poems where sound comes first. As Seiler says in an essay, ‘You recognise the song by its sound. The sound forms in the instrument we ourselves have become over time. Before every poem comes the story that we have lived. The poem catches the sound of it. Rather than narrating the story, it narrates its sound.’

General

Imprint:	And Other Stories
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2023
Authors:	Lutz Seiler
Translators:	Stefan Tobler
Dimensions:	198 x 129mm (L x W)
ISBN-13:	978-1-913505-76-9
Subtitles:	German
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-913505-76-6
Barcode:	9781913505769

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