New, contemporary poems by Nikolaus Lenau Prize winner Matthias Buth: they renew and vary a mature tone and open up a wide range of themes, motifs, content and forms. Buth's poems reflect the situations of the world just as they test their formal urge and expressiveness in the inconspicuousness of everyday life or in the emotionality of music or in the vastness of the linguistic cosmos. The fundamental crises of the time, such as the destruction of the warlike invasion of the Ukraine mentioned in the verse of the book's title, find a poetic expression in which the lyrical becomes recognizable as an instrument of cognition of topicality. Whether the appreciation of a Sintiza persecuted in the Holocaust or elegiac memories of childhood in Wuppertal, the evocation of subtle sensations of nature or premonitions of death while driving on the highway: this unmistakable poetry reflects a multifaceted topicality in fragments of the linguistically ingenious perception of a cosmopolitan poet.

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Author: Matthias Buth