In Field Latin

Seiler, Lutz; Booth, Alexander (TRN)

ISBN 10: 0857423363 / ISBN 13: 9780857423368

Published by Seagull Books, 2016

Seller Inventory # 25506123-n

Synopsis:

Lutz Seiler grew up in the former East Germany and has lived most of his life outside Berlin. His poems, not surprisingly, are works of the border, the in-between, and the provincial, marked by whispers, weather, time’s relentless passing, the dead and their ghosts. It is a contemporary poetry of landscape, fully aware of its literary and non-literary forebears, a walker’s view of the place Seiler lives, anchored by close, unhurried attention to particulars. With his precise, memorable language―rendered here in compelling English―Seiler has pulled off a difficult feat: recontextualizing and radically personalizing the long tradition of German nature writing for the twenty-first century.

About the Author:

Lutz Seiler was born in 1963 in Gera, a town in eastern Thuringia. He has published one novel and several volumes of poetry, short stories, and essays. Alexander Booth is a writer and translator who lives in Berlin.

Bibliographic Details

Title: In Field Latin
Publisher: Seagull Books
Publication Date: 2016
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New