ETUDES by MAYROCKER FRIED

Seagull Books , . Hardback. New.

Seagull Books, 2020. Hardcover. New. 195 pages. 8.75x5.00x0.75 inches.

Hardback. New. Exploring longing, lust for life, ageing, mortality, grief, and flowers in her inimitable late style, etudes is a diary-like sequence of poems by one of the greatest living Austrian poets. Friederike Mayroecker's almost daily entries give us a unique view into the interplay between desire and her motivation for writing. In Mayroecker's case, she writes both to keep a vanished world present and to exploit the possibilities of being present for constant experimentation. The poems in this volume are not only studies of how the mind works, moving from fragment to fragment, but also experiments with techniques of repetition, typography, collage, and quotation. Mayroecker transform the humble page into spaces of radical openness. After all, she says, a poem is that which "opens everything up." Each poem is date-stamped, and each date acts as a kind of permission for Mayroecker to pour in everything from notes on doctor's visits to gorgeously structured… Read More

Hardback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Exploring longing, lust for life, ageing, mortality, grief, and flowers in her inimitable late style, etudes is a diary-like sequence of poems by one of the greatest living Austrian poets. Friederike Mayroecker's almost daily entries gi