- Österreichischer Buchpreis 2016 · Winner
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Friederike Mayröcker (born 1924)
Translated by Donna Stonecipher
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Seagull Books · United Kingdom · 2026 · Paperback · 200 pages
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The last part of a trilogy begun with études and cahier gathers notes written between March 2014 and May 2015. A poet in Vienna writes every morning at her machine, in a flow of associations that escapes the rules of syntax. She holds conversations with swallows and poppy fields, with Derrida and Genet, with the painter Andreas Grunert and, again and again, with Ernst Jandl, her lost companion. The flowers of the title lead not to a meadow but to steep, stony ground: the book is memory and reckoning, protest and invocation, and a record of the one ritual that remains, writing itself.
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About the book
- Form
- Poetry
- Length
- 150 pages in the original
- Genres
- Autofiction (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Austria
- First published
- 2016 by Suhrkamp Verlag
- Author's age
- 92 when first published
- ISBN
9783518425206 (original)
9781803096384 (Seagull Books, United Kingdom)