A collection of vital, melancholic, elemental, and vibrantly contemporary poems. In the beginning, was the light, or was it the Lumières? In Ulrike Almut Sandig’s latest volume of poetry, it is only a leap from the creation of the world to the symphony of the Berlin metropolis. And there is a question holding out off the coast of Lampedusa: Can shining sheep be used as night storage for the dark hours, when we are overwhelmed with fears of God, of a gym teacher with a whistle, of mothers with eyes as black as coal? In devastating sequences, Sandig charts the reality of an abused child, victims of contemporary war, or a fourteenth-century Madonna. Full of humor, musicality, lightness, and rage, Shining Sheep is not just visual poetry—it has loops in your ear and filmic explosions of imagery for all your senses.
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ZippelonikaO awakeZ how to wake her loser mamaI the problem isP grownP on good days Zippelonika is a bouncy castle / with crenelations, a slide and flat blue insides E because L ZippelonikaO PixiN ChoraleI why is everything starting to swayK Drinking SongA QuestionSeven Marian Songs with HyenaVII KapuzinerbergVI of HélèneV song for two voicesIV over your little faceIII maulsII look here!I EchoThe Silent Songs of the WallsIIIIIIFire Earth Water LeapI FireII EarthIII WaterIV LeapRhapsody of LosingShining BodiesMurmurations. Little Choral Piece with BracesGuidance on Laughing at a DistanceClimate change is here, now. But we are also here, now. And if we don’t act, who will?From the WaterOf LosingThe Tongue is a Needle. And I am True North. Telling lies.Open ArmsInternal Report of a Russian spy-software on the up to the minute state of its unsuspecting informant, Codename: Cents (leaked) sa?nd 'b?dizwe were herebittersweet ode-zine 1 (N)bittersweet ode-zine 2 (J)Friedrich Hölderlin, reworkedDaniel dreamsLamentations in VI RoundsRound IRound IIRound IIIRound IVRound VRound VIThe Songs of the Radio TowerAct IAct IIAct IIIAct IVAct V? Closing CreditsShining ThanksTranslator’s Acknowledgements
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ISBN
9781803092522
Publisert
2023-09-05
Utgiver
Vendor
Seagull Books London Ltd
Høyde
8 mm
Bredde
5 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Antall sider
132