Pitch and Glint by Lutz Seiler, translated by Stefan Tobler
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY TRANSLATION CHOICE AUTUMN 2023
Dalia Neis Nic Stringer

Nic Stringer

sometimes painful and always questioning

who bears 'The Word': Love Me Tender

where narrative

disabused observer of social mores

Pitch and Glint by Lutz Seiler, translated by Stefan Tobler<br><b>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY TRANSLATION CHOICE AUTUMN 2023</b><br> Dalia Neis Nic StringerOn 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