I Am a Field Full of Rapeseed, Give Cover to Deer and Shine Like Thirteen Oil Paintings Laid One on Top of the Other by Ulrike Almut Sandig and translated by Karen Leeder

This is poetry from Germany.

I Am a Field Full of Rapeseed, Give Cover to Deer and Shine Like Thirteen Oil Paintings Laid One on Top of the Other by Ulrike Almut Sandig translated by Karen Leeder is published by Seagull Books. This is a Book originally written in German. This was published in 2020.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780857427373E12.

In I Am a Field Full of Rapeseed, Give Cover to Deer and Shine Like Thirteen Oil Paintings Laid One on Top of the Other, Ulrike Almut Sandig arrives in English through Karen Leeder’s translation from German, with a lyric field shaped by fields, deer, bright surfaces, and uneasy pastoral radiance. 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. I Am a Field Full of Rapeseed, Give Cover to Deer and Shine Like Thirteen Oil Paintings Laid One on Top of the Other belongs in the library as a book of encounter, not simply information.

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