France (Metailié), Netherlands (de Bezige Bij)
Angela Krauß was born in 1950 and lives in Leipzig. Her books have won numerous prizes, including the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize and the Malkowski Prize. In 2004, she was the annual visiting lecturer on poetics at the University of Frankfurt/Main.
Angela Krauß was born in 1950 and lives in Leipzig. Her books have won numerous prizes, including the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize and the...
Poetic existence unfolds in Angela Krauß’ magical language, a language in which reality vibrates – and dreams become tangible.
It’s summer. The poet is having lunch in her spot next to the piano, her patron is playing tennis seventeen hours away by plane, the owner of the French restaurant always serves her himself. The olives are black, hard, and sharp. This...