On Translating Lutz Seiler
In calling forth his landscape’s life, in full awareness of both his literary and non-literary forebears, Lutz Seiler has re-contextualized and radically personalized German Naturlyrik for the 21st century,… More
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one evening / they came the dead of my house / back from the train-station. it was december & // their next train did not leave till march More
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