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Father's on the Phone with the Flies: A Selection

Father's on the Phone with the Flies: A Selection

Müller, Herta
Cooper, Thomas

Paperback

Series: The Seagull Library of German Literature

General PoetryIndividual Artists

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ISBN10: 1803090456
ISBN13: 9781803090450
Publisher: Sea Boating
Published: Aug 5 2022
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
An unexpected, exciting work from one of the most protean writers ever to win the Nobel Prize.

To create the poems in this collection, Herta Müller cut up countless newspapers and magazines in search of striking phrases, words, or even fragments of words, which she then arranged in the form of a collage. Father's on the Phone with the Flies presents seventy-three of Müller's collage poems for the first time in English translation, alongside full-color reproductions of the originals. Müller takes full advantage of the collage form, generating poems rich in wordplay, ambiguity, and startling, surreal metaphors--the disruption and dislocation at their core rendered visible through stark contrasts in color, font, and type size. Liberating words from conformity and coercion, Müller renders them fresh and invests them forcefully with personal experience.

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