WÜ / WÜ
Poems
Long and short poems, tankas, and of course, sonnets – the booster rockets for all other poetic forms – are all present in Thomas Kunst’s new anthology of poems. And at the end of each chapter is a master sonnet, a letter to his cat, WÜ. These verses are full of tenderness and subtle humour, disconcertingly beautiful, and a kind of protective spell against everything that instils fear in us, against a menacing world.
»WÜ is more than just a cat. WÜ is a pick-up...
»WÜ is more than just a cat. WÜ is a pick-up...
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Long and short poems, tankas, and of course, sonnets – the booster rockets for all other poetic forms – are all present in Thomas Kunst’s new anthology of poems. And at the end of each chapter is a master sonnet, a letter to his cat, WÜ. These verses are full of tenderness and subtle humour, disconcertingly beautiful, and a kind of protective spell against everything that instils fear in us, against a menacing world.
»WÜ is more than just a cat. WÜ is a pick-up service from the garage and vespertine salvation. WÜ is a motion sensor and the first being that awaits me in the morning behind my bedroom door. WÜ is a Russian Blue. WÜ is also desert with desires. WÜ is dignified enumeration: eucalyptus lozenges on the highway.
The American photos of Leuna taken from the window of a car.
The advice of farmers to buy a record player before the first frost.
The fear of walking through tall grass.
The Golf of Mexico behind garages.
Names in the snow.«
»WÜ is more than just a cat. WÜ is a pick-up service from the garage and vespertine salvation. WÜ is a motion sensor and the first being that awaits me in the morning behind my bedroom door. WÜ is a Russian Blue. WÜ is also desert with desires. WÜ is dignified enumeration: eucalyptus lozenges on the highway.
The American photos of Leuna taken from the window of a car.
The advice of farmers to buy a record player before the first frost.
The fear of walking through tall grass.
The Golf of Mexico behind garages.
Names in the snow.«
2024, 173 pages
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Thomas Kunst
Author
Thomas Kunst, born in 1965, works as a library assistant at the German National Library. He has received numerous awards for his prose and poetry, amongst them the Meran Poetry Prize 2014. In 2018, he was awarded the Lower Austria Prize for Literature for an excerpt from Zandschow. The novel was also shortlisted for the German Book Prize 2021.
Thomas Kunst
Author
Thomas Kunst, born in 1965, works as a library assistant at the German National Library. He has received numerous awards for his prose and poetry,...
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Year of Publication: 2021
Thomas KunstYear of Publication: 2021
Zandschow
Bengt Claasen is sitting in his car, all his earthly possessions in the boot. In front of him, on the dashboard, sits the collar that belonged to his deceased dog. Wherever it falls down, he is going to stop and start a new life. He drives as slowly and carefully as he can and eventually, he reaches Zandschow – a tiny village in the far north with a fire-fighting pond as its...
Year of Publication: 2017
Thomas KunstYear of Publication: 2017
Colonies And Cufflinks
Thomas Kunst’s new poems are like a foray through a Luna park: Arab horsemen gather in the DIY superstore, the battle of Tours and Poitiers rages between carports and garden furniture covers in the year 732, and we encounter a Viking on 54th street in New York.
The subject of movement and flight are tangible in almost every poem. Although current topics such as...