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Star 111
Lutz Seiler; Translated by Tess Lewis
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Winner of the 2020 Leipzig Book Fair Prize Longlisted for the 2022
Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger Shortlisted for the 2022 Prix
Femina étranger #1 on the Spiegel Bestseller List November 1989.
The Berlin Wall has just fallen when the East German couple Inge
und Walter, following a secret dream they've harboured all their
lives, set out for life in the West. Carl, their son, refuses to
keep watch over the family home and instead heads to Berlin, where
he lives in his father's car until he is taken in by a group of
squatters. Led by a shepherd and his goat, the pack of squatters
sets up the first alternative bar in East Berlin and are involved
in guerrilla occupations. And it's with them that Carl, trained as
a bricklayer, finds himself an initiate of anarchy, of love, and
above all of poetry. Winner of the prestigious Leipzig Book Fair
Prize and a bestseller in German already with 150,000 copies sold,
Star 111, musical and incantatory, tells of the search for
authentic existence and also of a family exploded by political
change which must find its way back together.
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PROTOTYPE 5
Jess Chandler, Rory Cook, Aimee Selby; Designed by Theo Inglis; Cover design or artwork by Sinjin Li; Contributions by …
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The fifth instalment of Prototype's annual anthology: a space for
new work, open to all and free from formal guidelines or
restrictions. Poetry, prose, visual work and experiments in
between. With contributions by Alex Aspden, Ed Atkins & Steven
Zultanski, Mau Baiocco, Claire Carroll, Hal Coase, James M. Creed,
Iulia David, Nia Davies, Fiona Glen, Olivia Heal, Emma Hellyer,
Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou, Rowe Irvin, Sasja Janssen (trans.
Michele Hutchison), Bhanu Kapil, Sharon Kivland, Jeff Ko, Prerana
Kumar, Grace Connolly Linden, Dasha Loyko, Nasim Luczaj, Ian
Macartney, So Mayer, Catrin Morgan, Ghazal Mosadeq, Kashif
Sharma-Patel, Helen Quah, Dipanjali Roy, Leonie Rushforth, Stanley
Schtinter, Lutz Seiler (trans. Stefan Tobler), Madeleine Stack,
Malin Stahl, Corin Sworn, Olly Todd, Yasmin Vardi, Kate Wakeling,
Nathan Walker, Ahren Warner, Stephen Watts & Rojbin Arjen Yigit
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In Case of Loss
Lutz Seiler; Translated by Martyn Crucefix
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In Case of Loss gathers the best of Lutz Seiler's non-fiction from
last twenty-five years, revealing his essays to be different to,
but on a par with, his fiction and poetry. Seiler's beautifully
anecdotal and associative pieces throw fascinating light on
literature and his background, not least the environmental and
human catastrophe of the Soviet-era mining in the community he grew
up in, 'the tired villages . . . beneath which lay the ore,
uranium.' Other essays focus on poetry, including his discovery of
poetry during his military service and pieces on German poets,
including Ernst Meister, Jurgen Becker and Peter Huchel, whose
former house, outside Berlin, is now home to Lutz Seiler, after he
broke and entered it with Huchel's widow's blessing. Meanwhile, the
title essay - a fascinating insight into creative process -
describes Huchel's notebook, a kind of dictionary of poetic images
organised by mood and location. Providing a perfect welcome in to
his work as a whole, In Case of Loss sees one of Europe's most
original writers speak with openness and clarity in essays full of
insight, humanity and a poet's attention to the importance of often
overlooked objects and lives.
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Pitch & Glint
Lutz Seiler; Translated by Stefan Tobler
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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.’
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Kruso (Paperback)
Lutz Seiler; Translated by Tess Lewis
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Winner of the German Book Prize. It is 1989, and a young literature
student named Ed travels to the Baltic island of Hiddensee, a
notorious destination for hippies, idealists, and those at odds
with the East German state. On Hiddensee, Ed joins the community of
seasonal workers, led by the charismatic, enigmatic Kruso. At
night, they secretly help the refugees who have come to the island
seeking passage to the West. But Kruso is preoccupied by another
kind of freedom - freedom of the mind. As the wave of history
washes over the German Democratic Republic, the friends' grip on
reality loosens and life on the island will never be the same.
Lutz Seiler grew up in the former East Germany and has lived most
of his life outside Berlin. His poems, not surprisingly, are works
of the border, the in-between, and the provincial, marked by
whispers, weather, time's relentless passing, the dead and their
ghosts. It is a contemporary poetry of landscape, fully aware of
its literary and non-literary forebears, a walker's view of the
place Seiler lives, anchored by close, unhurried attention to
particulars. With his precise, memorable language--rendered here in
compelling English--Seiler has pulled off a difficult feat:
recontextualizing and radically personalizing the long tradition of
German nature writing for the twenty-first century.
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Kruso (Hardcover)
Lutz Seiler; Translated by Tess Lewis
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The lyrical, bestselling 2014 German Book Prize winner. It is 1989,
and a young literature student named Ed, fleeing unspeakable
tragedy, travels to the Baltic island of Hiddensee. Long shrouded
in myth, the island is a notorious destination for hippies,
idealists, and those at odds with the East German state. On the
island, Ed stumbles upon the Klausner, Hiddensee's most popular
restaurant, and ends up washing dishes there, despite his lack of
papers. Although he is keen to remain on the sidelines, Ed feels
drawn towards the charismatic Kruso, unofficial leader of the
seasonal workers. Everyone dances to Kruso's tune. He is on a
mission - but to what end, and at what cost? Ed finds himself drawn
ever deeper into the island's rituals, and ever more in need of
Kruso's acceptance and affection. As the wave of history washes
over the German Democratic Republic, the friends' grip on reality
loosens and life on the island will never be the same. PRAISE FOR
LUTZ SEILER 'An enigmatic Bildungsroman, adapting the literary
trope of the island refuge to the dying days of East German
socialism ... English readers can delight in this prizewinning
translation from Tess Lewis, which renders Seiler's vision in prose
of startling clarity.' The Saturday Age 'Kruso [is] the first
worthy successor to Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain to appear in
contemporary German literature.' Der Spiegel
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Kruso (Paperback)
Lutz Seiler; Translated by Tess Lewis
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