Hydra's Heads - Softcover

Gomringer, Nora

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1911570447 ISBN 13: 9781911570448

Verlag: Burning Eye Books, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

German poet Nora Gomringer is here translated into English for the first time by Scottish poet and editor Annie Rutherford. There is no simple equivalent to Nora Gomringer in the UK but Kate Tempest is perhaps the closest in terms of the way she is experimental wile remaining accessible and in her ability to stride seamlessly from stage to page to film to literature festival. These are poems which defy categorisation - interweaving the best of page and spoken word poetry to create something entirely of her own. These are poems which laugh, howl, stamp their lines. They are candid, wry, compassionate. There are poems about the darker times of Germany's modern history, reworkings of myths and fairy tales, and a 3-page-long ode to sex against a wall. All brought perfectly into English by Annie Rutherford.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

The Swiss/German author Nora Gomringer is one of the German language’s best known and loved contemporary poets. In the early 2000s she was a prominent voice in Germany’s young slam scene, and her background in performance continues to inform her work. Her writing blurs the boundaries between performance and page poetry, as well as often intersecting with other art forms, from film to music and visual art. Her work has won her a number of awards, including the Joachim Ringelnatz Prize in 2012 and the prestigious Ingeborg Bachmann Award in 2015. In 2019 she was the Max Kade Professor for the Oberlin College and Conservatory in Ohio. Nora Gomringer lives in Bamberg, where she is director of the International Artists’ House, Villa Concordia.

Reimar Limmer works as a graphic designer and illustrator with a particular focus on work in the arts. His illustrations for Nora Gomringer’s Trilogy have been showcased in exhibitions in Cologne, Vienna, Zurich and Hanoi. He lives and works in Bamberg.

Annie Rutherford makes things with words, and champions poetry and translated literature in all its guises. She works as Assistant Director at StAnza, Scotland’s international poetry festival, and translates from German, Russian, French and Belarusian. Her translations include Nora Gomringer’s Hydra’s Heads (Burning Eye, 2018), Volha Hapeyeva’s In My Garden of Mutants (Arc, 2021) and Isabel Bogdan’s novel The Peacock (V&Q Books, 2021). She is currently working on translations of Annette von Droste-Hülshoff and Kinga Toth.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Burning Eye Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1911570447
• ISBN 13: 9781911570448
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 88
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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