Scardanelli - Friederike Mayrocker - Books - SONG CAVE - 9780998829050 - November 1, 2018
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Scardanelli

Friederike Mayrocker

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Scardanelli

Poetry. Translated from the German by Jonathan Larson. In SCARDANELLI, Friederike Mayröcker, one of the most well-known poets in Austria, associated with the experimental German writers and artists of the Wiener Gruppe, continues to sharpen her mystical and hallucinatory poetic voice. Filled with memory and loss, these poems are time-stamped and often dedicated to friends they address, including Friedrich Hölderlin--I do often go in your shadow--who appears in the first poem of the book and stays throughout. Even the title, SCARDANELLI, refers to the name that Hölderlin signed many of the poems with after having been diagnosed with madness toward the end of 1806. Mayröcker uses her own eclectic reading, daily life, and the scenes and sounds of Vienna to find a new language for grief and aging--I am counted among the aging ones though I would prefer to consort with the young (rose of their cheeks). Despite the intractable challenges Mayröcker's language and unconventional use of signs and symbols presents to translation, Jonathan Larson manages to convey masterfully the unmistakable singularity of her work.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released November 1, 2018
ISBN13 9780998829050
Publishers SONG CAVE
Pages 72
Dimensions 142 × 188 × 8 mm   ·   136 g
Language English  

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