All Under One Roof by Evelyn Schlag and translated by Karen Leeder

This is poetry from Austria.

All Under One Roof by Evelyn Schlag translated by Karen Leeder is published by Carcanet Press Ltd.. This is a Book originally written in German. This was published in 2018.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781784102241E12.

Evelyn Schlag’s All Under One Roof, translated from German by Karen Leeder, brings poetry connected to Austria into English through shelter, shared space, and the emotional architecture of domestic life. I would not stop at the biographical or national frame, even when those contexts matter. The better entrance is through the poem’s pressure: the image that will not sit still, the phrase that feels slightly denser than ordinary speech, the moment where feeling outruns explanation. This description should help a reader know why the book belongs on the shelf without pretending the book has been solved in advance. All Under One Roof feels useful for readers who want translated poetry to widen not only what they know, but how they listen.

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