As Mornings and Mossgreen I. Step to the Window

Poetic prose meditations translated superbly into English.   Austrian poet Friederike Mayröcker is widely considered one of the most important European poets of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The last book of hers to be published during her lifetime, as mornings and moosgreen I. Step to the window is an elliptical and, if at times cryptic, deeply personal, playful, and highly poetic collection of experiences, memories, dreams, desires, fears, visions, observations, and peregrinations through landscapes both real and imagined. The volume bears witness to her unique late lyrical style of pyrotechnical cut-up. Among many others, her beloved Derrida, Duchamp, Hölderlin, and Jean-Paul all appear, almost like guides, as Mayröcker bravely makes her way through infirmity, old age, and loneliness, prolonging her time as a prolific writer as much as possible.  

About the author

Friederike Mayröcker (1924-2021) is widely considered one of the most important Austrian poets of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The recipient of numerous awards, including the renowned Georg Büchner Prize, she published over eighty works, including poetry, prose, radio plays, and children's books. Alexander Booth is a writer and translator. He lives in Berlin.

Product details

• Authors: Alexander Booth, Friederike Mayrocker, Friederike Mayröcker, Friederike Mayroecker
• Assisted by: Alexander Booth (Translation)
• Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2023
• EAN: 9781803091426
• ISBN: 978-1-80309-142-6
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 220 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 348 g
• Series: The German List
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies