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Series No.: 163
ISBN: 1-933382-01-5, Pages:
German Literature, Poetry
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Tousled Beauty is a selection of the young German poet
Dieter M. Gräf'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
Gräf'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."
Gräf was born in Ludwigshafen in 1960 and lives in Cologne. He has published three volumes of poetry with
Suhrkamp, Rauschstudie: Vater + Son (1994), Treibender
Kopf (1997), and Westrand (2002). He recently edited the
anthology Das leuchtende Buch. Die Welt als Wunder im
Gedicht (Insel, 2004). He has received the Leonce and Lena
Prize from the City of Darmstadt (1997) and has held
several fellowships, including one at the Literarisches
Colloquium in Berlin (1996) and at the Villa Massimo in
Rome (2004). He was appointed as writer-in-residence at
the Deutsche Festspiele in India in 2001 and at the
Deutsches Haus at New York University in 2005.
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