Love after Love

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.