Votives by Kuno Raeber and translated by Stuart Friebert, Christiane Wyrwa

This is poetry from Switzerland.

Votives by Kuno Raeber translated by Stuart Friebert, Christiane Wyrwa is published by Lost Horse Press. This is a Book originally written in German. This was published in 2017.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780998196312E12.

Votives, by Kuno Raeber and translated from German by Stuart Friebert, Christiane Wyrwa, is the kind of book that asks for a slower reader. Its center of gravity seems to be votive offering, devotion, and the poem as object left behind, 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 Switzerland into English while keeping enough strangeness intact for the encounter to matter. Votives belongs here because it enlarges the shelf’s emotional and linguistic weather.

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