Synopses & Reviews
Poetry. Translated from the German by Andrew Shields. TOUSLED BEAUTY is a selection of the young German poet Dieter M. Graf's work, emphasizing poetry, often broken and "scruffy," from before the 21st century. Many of the poems were written on the road in Europe and Asia, as well as during a stay at the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles in 1999. The poems were translated in unusually close cooperation between author and translator, with the author even revising some of the German poems in the process. "In Graf's work," wrote Anton Thuswaldner, "language keeps its word. If an author of his caliber makes a pact with it, it goes places no one has taken it before. Such texts are expeditions."
Synopsis
As the second volume in an ongoing collaboration with the German center Villa Aurora in Los Angeles, Green Integer has published Tousled Beauty by award-winning German poet Dieter M. Gräf. The poems represent a close cooperation between author and translator. Critic Anton Thuswaldner has written: “The world is everywhere language goes. And with Gräf, it goes places no one has taken it before. Such texts are expeditions.”
Synopsis
"The world is everywhere language goes. And with Gräf, it goes places no one has taken it before."--Anton Thuswaldner
About the Author
One of the most noted of Germany's younger poets, Gräf has produced three major books to date, two of which are now in English.