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Nico Bleutge

New poems by Nico Bleutge

A child is born. It changes the parent’s perception of the world. Feelings of joy, exhaustion, then great joy again. But at the same time, there is the pain of loss. A loved one died not long before. The shock reverberates, cuts into the body and into sounds. How can emotions and thoughts be translated into each other? What connects words and the self? Closeness and distance? Euphoric moments and suffering?

Nico Bleutge gives voice to these questions and forges his own unique rhythm from them. Poems about beginnings, about language before language, and about the relationship between memory and presence. Time lengthens and contracts in the play of sounds: ‘This gnawing, twisting together / of clouds, begin: not one / syllable to stand, compress / everything within’. The shimmering title sequence follows hawks and starlings beside the Tiber. Here, vocabulary meets magic words. We see cracks in the images that resemble the cracks in the landscape. And memory feeds in seemingly incidental details. Like the sound of breathing, which is always there but which you don’t notice until you turn your attention to it. With a keen feeling for language, Nico Bleutge explores the gaps in our perception and shows us the power of words, sonorous, sensual, simultaneously concrete and imaginary.


‘Before articulating a message, these poems are all music, in the finest tradition.’ Jochen Jung, DIE ZEIT


*New poems from Nico Bleutge about joy and loss


*Poems about beginning, about memory and presence


*‘This sparkling and glittering of the poetic texture has become the hallmark of the poet Nico Bleutge.’ Michael Braun, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, on ‘nachts leuchten die schiffe’

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Published 2023-02-16 by C.H.Beck , ISBN: 9783406798542

Main content page count: 115 Pages

ISBN: 9783406798542