Pitch & Glint Seiler Lutz
Pitch & Glint Seiler Lutz On its original publication in 2000, Pitch & Glint was widely hailed as a landmark in German poetry. The frailty of bodies, a nearness to materials and manual work, the…
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Pitch & Glint Seiler Lutz
On its original publication in 2000, Pitch & Glint was widely hailed as a landmark in German poetry. The frailty of bodies, a nearness to materials and manual work, the unknowability of our parents' suffering, and ultimately the loss of childhood innocence, all loom large in poems where sound comes first. 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 sound forms in the instrument we ourselves have become over time. As Seiler says in an essay, "You recognise the song by its sound. Before every poem comes the story that we have lived.
The poem catches the sound of it. Rather than narrating the story, it