Book record
Scardanelli
Friederike Mayröcker
Translated from German by Jonathan Larson
Scardanelli, by Friederike Mayröcker and translated by Jonathan Larson from German, brings Austrian German-language poetry into English through Scardanelli, Hölderlin's ghost, and Mayröcker's wintery channeling of literary afterlife and mental weather. 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 snowdrops, threshold, madness, and the peculiar consolation of thinking beside a haunted name, 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. Scardanelli belongs in the translated poetry library because it gives readers Mayröcker at her most difficult, companionable, and strangely radiant.
- Published
- 2018
- Publisher
- The Song Cave
- Language
- German
- Country
- Austria
- ISBN
- 9780998829050