Friederike Mayröcker

Jul 18, 2024 | poetryfoundation.org | Friederike Mayröcker |Donna Stonecipher |Janani Ambikapathy

By Friederike Mayröcker Translated By Donna Stonecipher If a collage and a poem are both produced through an arrangement of disparate images, the main difference between the two is that the latter relies on language. In Friederike Mayröcker’s cahier, translated from German by Donna Stonecipher, the poems read like collages—typographical symbols, punctuation, parts of speech, and so forth, are treated as images and arranged on the page based on a connection known only to the poet.