script for blind giants

After publishing two novels, Lutz Seiler returns to the home port of poems. Back to the voices of childhood, to the Waldstadion, to the »bone park« and to the question of where our »own narrow earth can anchor«. He discovers the »ancestral apparatus« of his native village, shaped by uranium mining, in order to listen to »his dead« there. He roams the world of sound underneath the vaulting pines of the Mark Brandenburg and is on the move: whether in the legends of Trouville or in Stockholm, his second home, always in search of a »script for blind giants« and their gaze towards »where the world could be suspected«.

With his suggestive voice and hardened language beyond all trends, Lutz Seiler opens up a very own poetic space. Above all, it is the materiality of things, speaking close to the substances – transformed into rhythm and sound, they form the narrative tone of his new poems: »The echo chamber of a poem should not be smaller than that of a novel,« Seiler writes. »Any good poem can be the gestic core of a novel and connect to the origin of the genre: to the epic and its song.«

»The way Seiler revisits the motifs and primal scenes of his early volumes of poetry and places them in new constellations with his poetic art of transformation is fascinating.« Michael Braun, Der Tagesspiegel

»The poem, the insatiable one, is right after all, the effort is worthwhile, there is no triteness that the reader, traveller, observer encounters in these lines.« Frankfurter Rundschau

»He stays close to things. In a clear language, using words sparingly, of a delicate rhythm, sometimes jazzy, without any fussiness. These mannerisms have a great suggestive effect.« Roland Gutsch, Nordkurier

»Every time a new book by Lutz Seiler is published, an amazing phenomenon occurs. This author needs only a few motifs to create an entire world ...« Helmut Böttiger, Deutschlandfunk

»Lutz Seiler's volume of poetry script for blind giants contains surprising, complex and very vivid poetry that makes the past appear in the present, that transforms the banal into artful imagery and that does not shy away from hymn-like incantations. An all-round successful volume, also because form and content come together congenially.« Carsten Otte, SWR

»A volume of poetry that shines most in its very quiet moments. Well observed, calm, atmospheric.« Juliane Bergmann, NDR

»Seiler has masterful command of a subtle style […], both skittish and firm in its diction and movement, tense and tensile in its branching extensions and jittery vertiginous drops. […] The voicing of such vision shifts from ecstatic to abject; the idiom is constantly sliding, smearing, merging to connect phenomena and feeling in work that opens a new approach in the ecological awareness currently driving poetry on both sides of the Atlantic. Seiler has effectively rewired the lyric for the twenty-first century, tuning the dial of the poetic to its lower frequencies, where the signal can pass through walls.« Poetry Magazine on in field latin