Love After Love - Softcover

Rakusa, Ilma

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1912963035 ISBN 13: 9781912963034

Publisher: SurVision Books, 2021

Synopsis

Ilma Rakusa was born in Slovakia, and grew up in Budapest, Ljubljana, and Trieste before moving with her parents to Zurich. In 1977, she made her debut with the German-language poetry collection titled "Just Like Winter." Since then, she has published a number of further collections, including "One Stroke through Everything" (Suhrkamp, 1997; in English translation, “A Farewell to Everything”, Shearsman Books, 2005), and "Love After Love" (Suhrkamp, 2001), as well as books of prose, including essays. Ilma Rakusa is a literary translator from Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian and French, and has been teaching Eastern European literature in Swiss universities. She lives in Zurich.

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"Love After Love" contains eight long-poems that focus on a passionate amorous obsession and a tragedy that lasted five years in the life of the author, when she fell in love with a jeweler. This book is about love after its innocence has been lost. Ilma Rakusa's poetry leaps from fondness to bitterness, from lust to disgust, from anger to sorrow in heartbeat. Originally published in German, this book by one of the leading Swiss poets has been translated into English by Paul-Henri Campbell.

Edition details

• Publisher: SurVision Books
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1912963035
• ISBN 13: 9781912963034
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 60