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This new volume of Michael Krüger’s poetical-lyrical explorations of nature, after Just Before the Storm (2003), Under the Open Sky (2007) and Clarity (2010), is published just in time for the author’s seventieth birthday. They are poems that focus on our living conditions with a mixure of amazement and reflection – one hundred attempts at summarising centrifugal events without heroics, as succinctly as possible, in order to catch an image of the world, be it ever...
This new volume of Michael Krüger’s poetical-lyrical explorations of nature, after Just Before the Storm (2003), Under the Open Sky (2007) and Clarity (2010), is published just in time for the author’s seventieth birthday. They are poems that focus on our living conditions with a mixure of amazement and reflection – one hundred attempts at summarising centrifugal events without heroics, as succinctly as possible, in order to catch an image of the world, be it ever so fleeting.
»Seasonal Time Change [...] presents almost exclusively short poems in which the beauty and iniquities of nature often mirror the unvarnished ironies of human endeavor, and is an accessible, excellent introduction to Kruger’s poetry for an American readership. Most poems in Seasonal Time Change are well under a page, precise in image, deft, witty, and wryly jaundiced in their view of the poet’s world caught between a desultory urban idyll and nature’s unsentimental image.« Rain Taxi
»Michael Krüger’s poems do not speak of love but once can love their inconsolable beauty, their noblesse and their earnestness, and they deserve it.« Hans-Herbert Räkel, Süddeutsche Zeitung
»Michael Krüger’s new poems form a great elegy on the disappearing visibility of the world that draws on a great tradition of nature poetry, intermittently but not with resignation, but that, at the same time, constitutes a very personal lament about a wasted life. […] the poet at the height of his art.« Friedmar Apel, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
»The great strength of these poems lies in the fact that they are always critical of contemporary frgetfulness, always vigilant towards the listless eye, the indifferent ear.« Jürgen Brocan, Fixpoetry
»Seasonal Time Change [...] presents almost exclusively short poems in which the beauty and iniquities of nature often mirror the unvarnished ironies of human endeavor, and is an accessible, excellent introduction to Kruger’s poetry for an American readership. Most poems in Seasonal Time Change are well under a page, precise in image, deft, witty, and wryly jaundiced in their view of the poet’s world caught between a desultory urban idyll and...
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Michael Krüger
Michael Krüger was born in Saxony in 1943 and lives in Munich. He has published several volumes of poems and short stories, as well as several novels.
Michael Krüger was born in Saxony in 1943 and lives in Munich. He has published several volumes of poems and short stories, as well as several...
OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Among Poets
In his new volume, Among Poets, he again...

Rendezvous with Poets
In 2013, an era comes to an end in Munich. Michael Krüger, the long-time publisher of Hanser Verlag, retires from his active role in the day-to-day business operations of the publishing house. He didn’t just manage the publishing house and edit the magazine Akzente. He remains active as a poet and write, as a literary critic, editor and translator. He is omnipresent and...

What Happened in the Two Weeks After Returning from Paris

In the Forest, In the Wooden House
Poland (Instytut Mikolowski), Serbia (Dereta), Bosnia (Lijepa Rijec)

The Turin Comedy
After the suicide of his best friend, Rudolf, the narrator is summoned to attend to his estate. A difficult...
English world rights (Harcourt), France (Seuil), Bulgaria (Balkani)
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The Wrong House
France (Seuil)
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