Anise Koltz (b. 1928) is Luxembourg's best-known poet. She is the founder and director of the festival "Les Journees de Mondorf", a member of the Mallame Academy, Paris, of the Pen-Club, Belgium and of the Grand-Ducal Institute of Arts and Letters. She is also a founding member and Vice-President of the European Academy of Poetry. This book offers a choice of her work.

Aux Banquets Du Diable (English and French Edition)

Literature & Fiction

KOLTZ, Anise

Poetry

Dufour Editions

"At the Edge of Night", a selection from four recent collections by Anise Koltz, brings the work of Luxembourg's best-known poet to the attention of the English-speaking literary world for the first time. Written in Koltz's prolific seventh decade, these brief poems - with their short, unpunctuated lines, clearly separated stanzas and powerful, direct language - are both personal and universal. This is not a gentle book. These poems pulse with anger, anger directed at the poet herself and her personal circumstances, and also at life, the world and God. Koltz originally wrote in German but switched to French which her translator, Anne-Marie Glasheen, believes gives her work some of its artistic power: This is poetry unlike any I have come across before. It feels utterly European - it speaks to the reader directly, jumping cultural barriers. It is poetry which is knife-sharp, clear and dazzling.

At the Edge of Night (English and French Edition)

Arc Publications

Poetry. Translated from the French by John F. Deane. The sequential poem is the connective tissue of AT THE DEVIL'S BANQUETS, a collection that holds at its heart the raw materials of familial relations and emotional inheritance. Koltz is tuned to a dark frequency, uncomfortably listening at the edge of the universe and forever seeking clarity of feeling. This work is highly metaphorical, self-incriminating, and spare, with an anger turned gently inward. John F. Deane's direct, clear translations from the French serve Koltz's somber vision exquisitely.

At the Devil's Banquets (The Living Library)

Tavern Books

At the Devil's Banquets

Pressée de vivre: suivi de Après

ARFUYEN

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