As Mornings and Mossgreen I. Step to the Window by Friederike Mayröcker and translated by Alexander Booth

This is poetry from Austria.

As Mornings and Mossgreen I. Step to the Window by Friederike Mayröcker translated by Alexander Booth is published by Seagull Books. This is a Book originally written in German. This was published in 2023.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781803091426E12.

In As Mornings and Mossgreen I. Step to the Window, Friederike Mayröcker arrives in English through Alexander Booth’s translation from German, with a lyric field shaped by morning, moss, perception, and consciousness in motion. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the book should not be reduced to a country-language-press summary. I would read it for atmosphere and attention first: what kind of silence it makes, what kind of body it imagines, what kind of world becomes visible when the poem turns its head. The strongest value of this entry is that it gives readers permission to approach difficulty as texture rather than a locked door. As Mornings and Mossgreen I. Step to the Window belongs in the library as a book of encounter, not simply information.

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