Subsisters by Uljana Wolf and translated by Sophie Seita

This is poetry from Germany.

Subsisters by Uljana Wolf translated by Sophie Seita is published by Belladonna. This is a Book originally written in German. This was published in 2017.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780988539976E12.

Subsisters, by Uljana Wolf and translated by Sophie Seita from German, brings German poetry into English through Uljana Wolf’s subsister figures, sistered language, and the social life of syllables under feminist pressure. 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 sisters, grammar, kinship, and the weird tenderness of words reproducing otherwise, 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. Subsisters belongs in the translated poetry library because it strengthens the library’s contemporary German experimental and feminist range.

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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