Watch Out by Kuno Raeber and translated by Stuart Friebert

This is poetry from Switzerland.

Watch Out by Kuno Raeber translated by Stuart Friebert is published by Lost Horse Press. This is a Book originally written in German. This was published in 2016.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780996858427E12.

Kuno Raeber’s Watch Out, translated by Stuart Friebert from German, should be introduced as more than a piece of metadata. The book’s charge gathers around warning, attention, threshold, and alert perception, and that makes it valuable for readers who want poems to think through sensation rather than explanation. I like descriptions that admit when a book may ask for patience, because patience is not a flaw in poetry. It is one of the pleasures. Read this one for the line that lingers, the image that feels half familiar and half impossible, the pressure of a voice shaped by poetry connected to Switzerland without being flattened into a lesson. Watch Out earns its place as a work of attention.

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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