All things
Aller Ding is a volume of poetry by Michael Lentz published by S. Fischer in 2003 .
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Following the title, the poems in Aller Ding deal with everything possible. Only love has been excluded as a topic from the start. On 200 pages there are shorter and longer poems of various kinds, from short puns to narrative poems.
Reviews
For the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Aller Ding is a “spirited compendium of experimental poetry of the 20th century”, following the hymn review by Beatrix Langner . Langner saw in the volume the long necessary "liberation of the letter from the terror of meaning". Michael Braun from the Frankfurter Rundschau made a “farewell” to poetry. But the work, which he received positively, is not just about the “last things” of poetry, but also about people: a desperate “rebellion against the factum brutum of death” can be recognized. Harald Hartung ( Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ), on the other hand, could hardly find anything positive in the poems; A nine-page anagram on Dieter Schnebel alone finds the approval of the reviewer, who otherwise sees the book as a “fake of abundance”. Nicolai Kobus, the reviewer of the taz , also wrote an undecided criticism of the work and compared the author with Panizza and Pastior . Like the FAZ reviewer, he appreciated the “Schnebel story” as particularly successful, but in contrast to Hartung also discovered a few other highlights. After reading Aller Ding, Burkhard Müller from the Süddeutsche Zeitung subordinated the later president of the Free Academy of the Arts in Leipzig and university professor to "madness" and tore the volume in its entirety.