The poems of Ulrike Almut Sandig are at once simple and fantastic.
This new collection finds her on her way to imaginary territories.
Thick of It charts a journey through two hemispheres to "the center
of the world" and navigates a "thicket" that is at once the world,
the psyche, and language itself. The poems explore an urgently
urban reality, but that reality is interwoven with references to
nightmares, the Bible, fairy tales, and nursery rhymes--all
overlaid with a finely tuned longing for a disappearing world. The
old names are forgotten, identities fall away; things disappear
from the kitchen; everything is sliding away. Powerful themes
emerge, but always mapped onto the local, the fractured individual
in "the thick of it" all. This is language at its most crafted and
transformative, blisteringly contemporary, but with a kind of
austerity, too. By turns comic, ironic, skeptical, nostalgic, these
poems are also profoundly musical, exploiting multiple meanings and
stretching syntax, so that the audience is constantly kept
guessing, surprised by the next turn in the line.
General
| Imprint: |
Seagull Books London Ltd
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
German List |
| Release date: |
September 2018 |
| Authors: |
Ulrike Almut Sandig
|
| Translators: |
Karen Leeder
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| Dimensions: |
216 x 127 x 13mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
|
| Pages: |
96 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-85742-556-0 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-85742-556-0 |
| Barcode: |
9780857425560 |
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