Almost 1 book, almost 1 life by Elfriede Czurda and translated by Rosmarie Waldrop

This is poetry from Austria.

Almost 1 book, almost 1 life by Elfriede Czurda translated by Rosmarie Waldrop is published by Burning Deck/Anyart. This is a Book originally written in German. This was published in 2012.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781936194124E12.

Almost 1 book, almost 1 life, by Elfriede Czurda and translated by Rosmarie Waldrop from German, brings Austrian German-language poetry into English through Austrian experiment, almost-life, and Elfriede Czurda’s refusal of the finished, well-behaved literary object. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem begins making its own weather. I would read it for fragment, selfhood, incompletion, and the comic unease of a book that nearly becomes a life, not as a fixed lesson about a nation, period, or school. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. Almost 1 book, almost 1 life belongs in the translated poetry library because it gives the German-language shelf a formally unruly Austrian presence.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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