Logistics is a word that he doesn’t like at all, says Nico Bleutge in a video that was made after a day of searching for clues in the poetry cabinet and now to be found on youtube is; it is one of those words that seeped into everyday language from the military. That alone makes it clear how finely this multiple award-winning poet and literary critic, born in Munich in 1972, tastes the terms. Also in the new volume “Sleep Tree Variations” (CH Beck), in which existential experiences such as the birth of a child and the death of the father resonate. And of course there is a sleeping tree in which “thousands of starlings” sit at night, “surrounded by the twilight”.
Nico Bleutge, Friday, Feb. 24, 7 p.m., Poetry Cabinet, Amalienstr. 83a, lyrik-kabinett.de