Pitch and Glint by Lutz Seiler, translated by Stefan Tobler
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY TRANSLATION CHOICE AUTUMN 2023
Dalia Neis Nic Stringer

Nic Stringer

a return ticket is thrown into the tide of Humber

careen ceaselessly toward light’

in which exquisite turns of phrase quite literally make the hairs on your neck and arms stand to attention

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