Pitch and Glint by Lutz Seiler, translated by Stefan Tobler
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY TRANSLATION CHOICE AUTUMN 2023
#canvasbags Anonymous in voice

Anonymous in voice

Jon Glover wrote most of the poems in this collection before his wife's sudden death from cancer in 2019

was awarded the prestigious Awater Poetry Prize in 2011

Like Kells's interlacing lines

Pitch and Glint by Lutz Seiler, translated by Stefan Tobler<br><b>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY TRANSLATION CHOICE AUTUMN 2023</b><br> #canvasbags Anonymous in voiceOn its original publication in 2000, Pitch & Glint was widely hailed as a landmark in German poetry. Rooted in Seiler's childhood home, an East German village brutally undermined by Soviet Russian uranium extraction, these propulsive poems are highly personal, porous, twisting, cadenced, cryptic and earthy, traversing the rural sidelines of European history with undeniable evocative force. The frailty of bodies, a nearness to materials and manual