Poetry always oscillates between the poles of love and death.

Anyone who reads Matthias Buth's poems will be carried away by a poetry that leads to the ground of existence. Johannes Brahms wrote his bucolic second symphony on Lake Wörthersee and was close to his distant beloved Clara Schumann. The poet's beloved remained in this lake, in Pörtschach, the most tender place in Carinthia. The poems allow his wife to live on, she remains in his daily cosmos. The texts trace this. They are love poems that allow us to continue breathing in three sections. This poetry is worldly, with great poetic warmth and precision. Buth is a master of linguistic reduction, a poet and lyrical singer of distinction.

The Pörtschach passages are poetry that remains and lets us recognize: The dead remain alive.

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Author: Matthias Buth