Father's on the phone with the flies : a selection / Herta Müller ; translated by Thomas Cooper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Müller, Herta, 1953- author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Cooper, Thomas, 1971- translator.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

German poetry.

German poetry--21st century.

Genre:

Found poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

193 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm

Other Title:

Father is on the phone with the flies

Place of Publication:

London : Seagull Books, 2018.

Language Note:

Parallel German and English texts, translated from the German.

Summary:

To create the poems in this collection, Nobel Prize-winner Herta Müller cut up countless newspapers and magazines in search of striking phrases, words, or even fragments of words, which she then arranged in a the form of a collage. Father's on the Phone with the Flies presents seventy-three of Müller's collage poems for the first time in English translation, alongside full-color reproductions of the originals. Müller takes full advantage of the collage form, generating poems rich in wordplay, ambiguity, and startling, surreal metaphors--the disruption and dislocation at their core rendered visible through stark contrasts in color, font, and type size. Liberating words from conformity and coercion, Müller renders them fresh and invests them forcefully with personal experience. Sure to thrill any fan of contemporary literature, Father's on the Phone with the Flies is an unexpected, exciting work from one of the most protean writers ever to win the Nobel.

To create the poems in this collection, Nobel Prize-winner Herta Müller cut up countless newspapers and magazines in search of striking phrases, words, or even fragments of words, which she then arranged in a the form of a collage. Father's on the Phone with the Flies presents seventy-three of Müller's collage poems for the first time in English translation, alongside full-color reproductions of the originals. Müller takes full advantage of the collage form, generating poems rich in wordplay, ambiguity, and startling, surreal metaphors--the disruption and dislocation at their core rendered visible through stark contrasts in color, font, and type size. Liberating words from conformity and coercion, Müller renders them fresh and invests them forcefully with personal experience. Sure to thrill any fan of contemporary literature, Father's on the Phone with the Flies is an unexpected, exciting work from one of the most protean writers ever to win the Nobel.

Notes:

"Originally published as Herta Müller, Vater telefoniert mit den Fliegen, © Carl Hanser Verlag München, 2012."--Title page verso.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780857424723

0857424726

OCLC:

979568534