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Article: Winter Conversation.(Poem)
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- Chicago Review
- Article date:
- June 22, 2002
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WINTER CONVERSATION
translated Tony Frazer
Asleep, with dog hairs. But you,
awake, grope your way through light that wanders
between the chink in the curtains and long-dry
washing. Offprints in barrack shades,
after a feverish night the first words. You
leave the beam for the sounds, the
peak of a fleece cap, snow maneuvers,
unknown, of one immersed, asleep.
Marcel Beyer (b. 1965 in Cologne) has lived in Dresden since 1996. One of the very few writers with a significant reputation both as a novelist and as a poet, he has published three novels: Das Menschenfleisch (Suhrkamp, 1991), Flughunde (Suhrkamp, 1995), and Spione (DuMont, 2000), and two collections ...