Manderscheid's Soccer Players


Roger Manderscheid, the great Luxembourg poet, novelist and artist who passed away earlier this month (here), published a lovely book of his color drawings on soccer themes back in 2006 with an introduction by his friend, the other excellent Luxembourg novelist in the mame loshn, Guy Rewenig (possibly still available from editions ultimondo, 16 rue d’Olm L-8392, Luxembourg). I’ll reproduce a few of his drawings here during the days of the World Cup — just enjoy the drawings, their wry humor, savviness, melancholia & wistfulness, it could save you many hours wasted in front of a t.v. screen.
Poasis II: Selected Poems 2000-2024
“Todesguge/Deathfugue”
“Interglacial Narrows (Poems 1915-2021)”
“Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between, with Florent Toniello”
“Conversations in the Pyrenees”
“A Voice Full of Cities: The Collected Essays of Robert Kelly.” Edited by Pierre Joris & Peter Cockelbergh
“An American Suite” (Poems) —Inpatient Press
“Arabia (not so) Deserta” : Essays on Maghrebi & Mashreqi Writing & Culture
“Barzakh” (Poems 2000-2012)
“Fox-trails, -tales & -trots”
“The Agony of I.B.” — A play. Editions PHI & TNL 2016
“The Book of U / Le livre des cormorans”
“Memory Rose Into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry of Paul Celan”
“Paul Celan, Microliths They Are, Little Stones”
“Paul Celan: Breathturn into Timestead-The Collected Later Poetry.” Translated & with commentary by Pierre Joris. Farrar, Straus & Giroux
I like the drawings and I also like my tv these days!
thank You so much for sharing Roger Manderscheid’s soccer players. Searching for them, in a world cup mood, I found an obituary: Roger died on June 1. “Adios, caro amigo!”