borrowed tongues
New poems by an avant-garde literary virtuoso
New poems by a major voice of the Austrian avant-garde. A self-portrait of the artist as an old man and an exploration of the arts, from ...
Franz Josef Czernin
Franz Josef Czernin who was born in Vienna in 1952, has published prose, poetry, essays and aphorisms since 1978. His work has been awarded the Heimito von Doderer Literature Prize, the Anton Wildgans Prize, the Georg Trakl Prize, the Austrian State Prize for Literary Criticism and the Ernst Jandl Prize, among others. He has been a member of the German Academy for Language and Literature since 2008. Most recent publications by Hanser are staub. gefässe (collected poems, 2008), zungenenglisch. visionen, varianten (2014) and reisen, auch winterlich (poems, 2019).
travelling, even in winter
“I moved in as a stranger, and as a stranger, I move out...” Don’t all poems say the same thing, if in different ways? At least that is true of poems about the fundamental things in life ...
moreAngels’ Tongues
Alfred North Whitehead once said that all European philosophical tradition basically consists of is footnotes to Plato. The poems in Franz Josef Czernin’s new volume are by no means footnotes ...
moreThe Labyrinth invents the red thread
Ideas follow each other at lightning speed in this book: a great intellectual experiment that presents truths and contradictions, singularities and opposites as extreme poles of a poetic ...
moreElements, Sonnets
Earth, water, fire and air – since the birth of philosophy those four terms have been considered the original principles of the world, the four elements of which all forms of life are composed. ...
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