Kochanie, Today I Bought Bread

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The lyrical, imaginatively-crafted debut collection by one of Germany's most important contemporary poets explores the "shifting of the mouth" toward the other, toward translation, toward a reckoning with historical silences. In kochanie, today i bought bread, Uljana Wolf crosses borders from East Germany into Poland, from fairy tales to the tallying of land torn by fateful past, from women's voices "hibernating in documents, " to Lavinia's spilling forth of red language. Hailed by critics for its "brief strokes that open up a wide historical space in which political doom is still present, " this book is a testament that the cartography we inherit is equal parts limit and dare. Wolf's debut collection won the Peter Huchel Prize in 2006-she was its youngest recipient. Nearly 20 years later, this bilingual edition-featuring a new introduction by Valzhyna Mort and Greg Nissan's superbly-tuned translation-invites English-language readers into the "guest room" of poetry"--