{"title":"Friederike Mayröcker","description":"Friederike Mayröcker (1924-2021) was among the most influential and decorated German-language poets of the postwar period. The recipient of numerous awards, including the renowned Georg Büchner Prize, during her lifetime, she published over eighty works, including poetry, prose, radio plays, and children's books. Donna Stonecipher is the author of five books of poetry and one of prose. She translated Ludwig Hohl's Ascent and cotranslated Alexander Kluge's Temple of the Scapegoat.","products":[{"product_id":"fleurs-hardcover","title":"Fleurs - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn uncompromising masterpiece that transforms memory and renewal into a wild world of words.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Fleurs--flowers, flower petals--a title that might suggest a gentle world of blooming fields and soft breezes. But in the hands of Friederike Mayröcker, one of the greatest German-language poets of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, this is a book of a very different kind. It is a wild, vivid journey into a rich, elemental landscape. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e If you follow Mayröcker's path, you find not a comfortable meadow but steep, stony ground--a place where her inimitable voice rings out in all its power and purity. Unsentimental and crystal clear, Mayröcker's writing is driven by a single purpose: to create images of remarkable vividness in a language as free, bold, and fresh as if it were newly invented. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The final installment of Mayröcker's trilogy, following \u003ci\u003eétudes\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ecahier\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003efleurs\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of memory and renewal, protest and revelation--a testimony to the enduring magic of writing itself.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51414544351455,"sku":"9781803096384","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ZVrpOOGFdn9781803096384.webp?v=1789660292"},{"product_id":"the-communicating-vessels-paperback","title":"The Communicating Vessels - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFor the first time available in English, two portraits of grief by Friederike Mayröcker, one of the significant European writers of our time.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eFriederike Mayröcker\u003c\/strong\u003e met Ernst Jandl in 1954, through the experimental Vienna Group of German writers and artists. It was an encounter that would alter the course of their lives. Jandl's death in 2000 ended a partnership of nearly half a century. As writers have for millennia, Mayröcker turned to her art to come to terms with the loss. Taking its cue from the André Breton's work of the same name, \u003cem\u003eThe Communicating Vessels\u003c\/em\u003e is an intensely personal book of mourning, comprised of 140 entries spanning the course of a year and exploring everyday life in the immediate aftermath of Jandl's death. Rilke is said to have observed that poetry should begin as elegy but end as praise: taking this as a guiding principle, \u003cem\u003eAnd I Shook Myself a Beloved\u003c\/em\u003e reflects on a lifetime of shared books and art, impressions and conversations, memories and dreams. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMasterfully translated by Alexander Booth, these two singular books of remembrance and farewell offer a stunning testament to a life of passionate reading, writing, and love.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51433742303455,"sku":"9780998267586","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/WXTYpzLHw99780998267586.webp?v=1790017180"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/friederike-mayrocker.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}