Tag: lyric
Poems by Josef Guggenmos, newly illustrated – Culture
On July 2, 2022, Josef Guggenmos, one of the most important children’s poets in German literature, would have turned 100. But his poems stay forever young, just think of what…
Tomas Venclova’s collection of poems “Variation on the theme of awakening” – Culture
The memory – maybe it’s not just a searching movement, but also its own, wafer-thin layer in which the moments of the past are collected. An “invisible sphere”, as Tomas…
Ilya Kaminsky book of poems “Republic of Deafness”. Review. – Culture
The Ukrainian-American poet Ilya Kaminsky draws images from the depths of his memory that are eerily attached to those of the war in Ukraine. And he celebrates a special form…
Augusta Laar’s volume of poems about sleep – Munich
Who does not know them, the involuntarily awake nights in which you toss and turn from left to right and back again, try to breathe away the stress mindfully and…
Judith Zander’s poems: “in the country summer in winter at sea” – culture
In our current years of crisis and war, there is an oppressive amount of talk about freedom. Under such circumstances, it takes a free spirit for freedom to come back…
Poetry from the opencast lignite mine: Jürgen Nendza’s “Flying Grass” – culture
At first sight the “INDESCO OCEAN” looks like a misprint. But when the poet Jürgen Nendza, born in Essen in 1957, puts a word in capital letters, it is usually…
Favorites of the week – culture
Angry Ballad: Amerasia Amerasia is a no man’s land, not marked on maps. Americans is called in Thailand, which was an “aircraft carrier” for US operations in the Vietnam War,…
Poem: In the social network
Friedrich Ani wrote a poem called “In the Social Network”. source site
The Dresden poet Thomas Rosenlocher has died at the age of 74. – Culture
Thomas Rosenlocher once described himself as a bearded man with “sparse, tangled hair”. In fact, it was his gaze that caught the eye: owlish, curious, questioning, there was also something…
Evening for St. Petersburg poetess Jelena Schwarz in the Lyrik Kabinett – Munich
She knew what censorship meant: the St. Petersburg poetess Jelena Schwarz (1948-2010) was not allowed to publish a single line until perestroika. However, she was celebrated in the city’s underground…