Reprisal

"Unrestrained in scope as well as in skill!" Andreas Platthaus, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

  • One of the most important voices of contemporary German literature
  • Michael Lentz has received several awards, including the Bachmann Prize and the Walter Hasenclever Prize

Michael Lentz's new poems are literally about everything - an A to Z from childhood to death. At the centre, not coincidentally, is a poem about a child who found a dead blackbird. And both, the child as well as the poem, want to make the bird sing again. Again and again, Lentz's new poems indulge in the creative, vital power of language, drawing on all registers and ranging from prayers to anagrams. The result is a mixture of the Baroque and Romanticism, combined with cool Modernism, which encompasses all of our existence.

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  • Publisher: S. FISCHER
  • Release: 22.02.2023
  • ISBN: 978-3-10-390012-5
  • 128 Pages
  • Author: Michael Lentz
Buchcover von Reprisal: Gedichte
Michael Lentz Reprisal
Portrait von Michael Lentz
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Michael Lentz

Michael Lentz, born in 1964 in Düren, lives in Berlin. He is an author, musician, and editor. His most recent publications are Warum wir also hier sind (play), Offene Unruh (poems), the essay collection Textlebe , the Frankfurt Poetry Lectures Atmen Ordnung Abgrund , Schattenfroh. Ein Requiem (novel) and Innehaben. Schattenfroh und die Bilder , all of which were published by S. FISCHER and FISCHER Taschenbuch.