Йtudes, Mayrocker Friederike

The poems in this volume are not only studies of how the mind works, moving from fragment to fragment, but also experiments with techniques of repetition, typography, collage, and quotation. Mayr cker transform the humble page into spaces of radical openness. After all, she says, a poem is that which opens everything up. Each poem is date-stamped, and each date acts as a kind of permission for Mayr cker to pour in everything from notes on doctors visits to gorgeously structured elegies to obsessively repeating fragments of memory that act upon the whole like bits of recurring melody.