Rain barrel variations
Rain barrel variations is a volume of poetry by the German poet Jan Wagner , which was published by Hanser Berlin Verlag in 2014 .
content
The poetry volume contains 57 poems in 5 sections. The poems deal with artistic variations of apparently everyday, domestic nature, objects that “eke out a marginal existence”, but which the author poetizes as “breathtaking natural spectacles”. Themes include the ground elder , a horse, three Sicilian donkeys, sloes, graves, the morel, a nail, silver thistles, peat, the copper beech , the grotto olm , rain barrel variations, an otter and other plants, animals and things. Stylistically, odes or sonnets are used in some poems . In many cases the rhyme form is dispensed with. The blurb says: Jan Wagner, "zooms in very close, fades associatively, until the view widens and the exhilarating feeling arises of having penetrated the essence of things for a moment."
Awards
The book of poems won the Leipzig Book Fair Prize on March 12, 2015 (Category: Fiction ). This is the first time a lyric work has been awarded this prize. The jury spoke of “poetry full of presence of mind” and gave the reason for their decision: “Jan Wagner's poems are stuck in the memory. They are vivid, specific, and of reserved intelligence. He takes a friendly look at flora, fauna and human debacles without making too much of a fuss about his ability to perceive. ”The volume was featured in the poetry recommendations of the German Academy for Language and Poetry , the Lyrik Kabinett Foundation and the Berlin Literature Workshop.
Reviews
A FAZ reviewer wrote about the volume of poetry that the author would find it easy to achieve the greatest mastery. He is a "poet of the gaze". The "word fields of optics" "dominated his poems". Nora Bossong ( Die Zeit ) wrote of a "splendid, downright intoxicating work", an "organ made of hairdryers". There could be no doubt about Wagner's mastery of speech treatment. The “chain of refinements” could “make you nervous”, but “these refinements will not be denied their aesthetic legitimacy”. Georg Diez published a review in his mirror column; he assumed a prevailing attitude of mind to view literature as "protection from the present". The poems are transfigured and kitschy (quote: here someone celebrates the very, very small, the super-private, the love of the countryside and immersion, transfiguration, kitsch of nature in such a humorless and formally dull way that boredom is no longer a word which can be applied to these poems ).
Web links
- Review notes on rain barrel variations at perlentaucher.de
- Deutschlandradio Kultur (December 22, 2014)
- DAS ERSTE - ttt: Prize for Poets - At the Leipzig Book Fair with Jan Wagner ( Memento from March 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Deutschlandradio Kultur (December 22, 2014)
- ↑ Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2015 ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Leipzig Book Fair
- ↑ FAZ.net Feuilleton September 30, 2014
- ↑ ZEIT ONLINE Literature Edition 07 2015
- ↑ Georg Diez: Away with all the pussy willows. SpiegelOnlineKultur, March 13, 2015, accessed on March 12, 2015 .
