with each clouded peak - Friederike Mayrocker

with each clouded peak by Friederike Mayröcker (who died in 2021) / ISBN 9781557132772 / 88-page paperback from Sun & Moon Classics (new copies, but they are from the 1998 printing and have small signs of age wear

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Beginning with personal remembrances, experiences, and feelings, prize-winning Austrian poet Friederike Mayrocker adds linguistic material collected from a variety of other sources (which through the years she gathered on pieces of paper) to create a grand collage subject to the permutations, repetitions, and rediscoveries of everyday life. The result is a magnificent text that does not easily fit into any genre, as it straddles autobiography, essay, fiction, and poetry.