Shatter the Bell in My Ear by Christine Lavant and translated by David Chorlton

This is poetry from Austria.

Shatter the Bell in My Ear by Christine Lavant translated by David Chorlton is published by Bitter Oleander Press. This is a Book originally written in German. This was published in 2017.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780986204982E12.

Shatter the Bell in My Ear, by Christine Lavant and translated from German by David Chorlton, is the kind of book that asks for a slower reader. Its center of gravity seems to be spiritual pain, damaged music, and rural affliction, but the point is not to make those themes behave too neatly. Poetry is often most alive when it lets a reader feel a relation before naming it. I would place this book in front of someone willing to follow image, cadence, and mood before demanding a thesis. The translation carries a voice shaped by poetry connected to Austria into English while keeping enough strangeness intact for the encounter to matter. Shatter the Bell in My Ear belongs here because it enlarges the shelf’s emotional and linguistic weather.

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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