Pitch and Glint by Lutz Seiler, translated by Stefan Tobler
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY TRANSLATION CHOICE AUTUMN 2023
Dalia Neis sometimes painful and always questioning

sometimes painful and always questioning

a return ticket is thrown into the tide of Humber

and its uniqueness – a masterful Elizabethan lyric poet writing in the second half of the twentieth century – is just now becoming properly appreciated

where narrative

careen ceaselessly toward light’

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