INVISIBLE LIGHTNING. POEMS

According to the critic Steffen Jacobs, Delius shows “a sensitivity for the moment that combines an understanding of form and a terseness of language in a way that is utterly beautiful.” Friedrich Christian Delius rejects illusion, has cultivated a sharpness of style that is often broken up by moments of irony. He often draws on the everyday, the mundane to create poetry. These poems condense into a bridge “that leads through the thicket of the air and onto a surprising new road.”

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  • Publisher: Rowohlt Taschenbuch
  • Release: 30.01.2015
  • ISBN: 978-3-499-26917-2
  • 288 Pages
  • Series: Delius: Werkausgabe in Einzelbänden
  • Author: Friedrich Christian Delius

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Friedrich Christian Delius

Friedrich Christian Delius , born 1943 in Rome, died 2022 in Berlin, grew up in central Germany. He did his doctoral thesis in German studies in 1970 and subsequently worked as a book editor. His most recent publications are the novel Wenn die Chinesen Rügen kaufen, dann denkt an mich (2019) and the short story collection Die sieben Sprachen des Schweigens (2021). Delius won numerous awards, most recently the German Critics’ Prize, the Joseph Breitbach Prize and the Georg Büchner Prize. His edition of works published by Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag currently comprises nineteen volumes.