In Field Latin (The Seagull Library of German Literature) - Softcover

Lutz Seiler grew up in the former East Germany and has lived most of his life outside Berlin. His poems, not surprisingly, are works of the border, the in-between, and the provincial, marked by whispers, weather, time&;s relentless passing, the dead and their ghosts. It is a contemporary poetry of landscape, fully aware of its literary and non-literary forebears, a walker&;s view of the place Seiler lives, anchored by close, unhurried attention to particulars. With his precise, memorable language&;rendered here in compelling English&;Seiler has pulled off a difficult feat: recontextualizing and radically personalizing the long tradition of German nature writing for the twenty-first century.