Book record
Etudes
Friederike Mayröcker
Translated from German by Donna Stonecipher
Etudes, by Friederike Mayröcker, is a German poetry collection from Germany, translated by Donna Stonecipher, published by Seagull Books. It is a German collection by Friederike Mayröcker, a writer of astonishing associative drift and lyric difficulty. The title suggests studies or exercises, but Mayröcker's studies are less orderly than radiant, moving by perception, memory, fragment, and sudden private weather. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can begin working. Start with the title, the pressure of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. The value here is not just metadata or representation. It is the chance to let a particular book create its own weather, its own difficulty, and its own way of asking the reader to listen.
- Publisher
- Seagull Books
- Language
- German
- Country
- Germany