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Informationen zum Autor Evelyn Schlag was born and raised in Waidhofen an der Ybbs in Lower Austria. She studied German and English literature at the University of Vienna! and taught in Vienna for a time before returning to Waidhofen! where she divides her time between teaching and writing. She has written seven volumes of prose fiction! a book of essays! and five collections of her own poetry. Klappentext The first English translation of the work of Evelyn Schlag, this text includes "Summer Elegies," one of her most recent and highly acclaimed poems, along with selections from earlier works. The celebrated Austrian poet, one of the most distinctive and subtle voices in contemporary German-language writing, uses "elegy" in the same spirit as Ovid, as a mode that includes the themes of love, place, and the passing of time and the urgencies it induces. These poetic landscapes and the creatures that inhabit them, human and otherwise, are unforgettable, and the rapid, nuanced, and unpunctuated style involves the reader in various creative ways. Zusammenfassung This is an introduction to Evelyn Schlag! one of the most critically acclaimed European poets! translated into English with critical and biographical material.
