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Love after Love / Love after Love
Eight Swansongs
Love After Love contains eight longer poems, all of which revolve around lost loves – tender, bitter, delicate, harsh, bitter, lamenting, some written in the style of the Kaddish, others as manic monologues and dialogues.
The agitated language of the poems, which is constantly reassuring itself, shifts between German and English, which serves as a reference to the other: a surface of friction, a counterpart, an opposing voice. As such, love (if that’s what it was?) appears...
The agitated language of the poems, which is constantly reassuring itself, shifts between German and English, which serves as a reference to the other: a surface of friction, a counterpart, an opposing voice. As such, love (if that’s what it was?) appears...
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Love After Love contains eight longer poems, all of which revolve around lost loves – tender, bitter, delicate, harsh, bitter, lamenting, some written in the style of the Kaddish, others as manic monologues and dialogues.
The agitated language of the poems, which is constantly reassuring itself, shifts between German and English, which serves as a reference to the other: a surface of friction, a counterpart, an opposing voice. As such, love (if that’s what it was?) appears here as a swansong, full of furious paradoxes, ultimately still undecided about the enduring end.
The agitated language of the poems, which is constantly reassuring itself, shifts between German and English, which serves as a reference to the other: a surface of friction, a counterpart, an opposing voice. As such, love (if that’s what it was?) appears here as a swansong, full of furious paradoxes, ultimately still undecided about the enduring end.
2010, 54 pages
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Year of Publication: 2001
Ilma RakusaYear of Publication: 2001
A Farewell to Everything
Ninety nine-line poems, comprising a farewell to everything . What can nine lines of poetry contain? A little, a lot. Moments, memories, notations, abridged stories. They can be left in limbo, odd as...
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