Ernst Jandl
Ernst Jandl (1925-2000), the great Austrian (sound/concrete, etc.) poet, would have been eighty today. The German daily, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, reminds of us the occasion and brings some unpublished poems, the following among them:
“diese gedichte können, da es vorzüglich
gedichte zur bewältigung des Lebens sind,
in jeder beliebigen reihenfolge von Ihnen
gelesen werden, verehrte lederriemen
und leser.”
FAZ also published a moving piece by his life-companion, the poet Friederike Mayröcker: “This morning after the second awakening I think about the sentence by Gertrude Stein which goes: ‘I am I because my little dog knows me,’ and when EJ died I had lost the major part of my identity.” [Heute morgen nach dem zweiten Erwachen denke ich über den Satz von Gertrude Stein nach, der lautet: ‘ich bin ich weil mein kl. Hund mich kennt’, und als EJ starb hatte ich den gröszten Teil meiner Identität eingebüszt.”]
The following poem, Schützengraben, is from the dormant UBUweb site:
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