Bøger af Rose Auslander

Wild Water Child is a collection by Hyannis poet Rose Auslander and the second annual publication of Bass River Press, an imprint of the Cultural Center of Cape Cod. The poems are written from the perspective of a mother struggling to understand and accept her child's new way of life and the many dangers that come with it. Characterized by wild, natural imagery and rhythmic flow, Wild Water Child is a journey of longing, heartbreak, and coming to terms. Auslander's poetry is layered and multi-faceted; it demands a second, third, or even fourth read.Addicted to water and poetry (not necessarily in that order), Rose Auslander earned her MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College. Poetry Editor of Folded Word Press and Editor of the unFold zine, she is the author of the chapbooks Folding Water, Hints, and The Dolphin in the Gowanus. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has read her poems on NPR. Rose currently lives on Cape Cod.Auslander writers, of Wild Water Child: The summer I began writing these poems, my husband and I had not heard from our younger child for months. Seeking to escape chronic pain in her neck, back, stomach, and hands, our nineteen-year-old had left our home in Brooklyn, New York, to live without shelter with a small group in the woods of upper Wisconsin. She planned to study primitive skills inspired by traditional Ojibwa ways--drinking wild river water, creating fire from friction, telling time and direction from the sky. Had she lost her mind?Told that the only way to communicate was to write, I sent letter after letter. Did they arrive? I received no word back. The head of her group assured me she was ok, but I worried. I couldn't sleep. My neck, back, and stomach hurt. My hand ached from writing.When I gave up, a letter arrived--the envelope covered with drawings of trees and rivers and clouds. I could barely see the address.That October, we visited our child in the woods. I drank my own wild water. Month by month, it infiltrated my system. And after thirty years in Brooklyn, my husband and I left city life, to live by a pond, a short walk from the ocean.These poems, many originally written as letters, were completed here, on Cape Cod.

Die deutsch-jüdische Dichterin Rose Ausländer wurde 1901 in Czernowitz geboren, in der damaligen österreichischen Kronkolonie Bukowina. Beginnend mit dem Ersten Weltkrieg wurde die Bukowina zum Spielball der Interessen umliegender Staaten. Damit einhergehende Wirren haben der multiethnischen und vielsprachigen Universitätsstadt Czernowitz stark zugesetzt. Zum alten Glanz in der Zeit der österreichisch-ungarischen Monarchie fand man nie wieder zurück. Bereits mit 20 Jahren musste die Dichterin ihre Heimat verlassen, weil die Mutter die Familie nach dem Tod des Vaters nicht mehr ernähren konnte. Die Tochter wanderte in die USA aus, pendelte aber wiederholt zwischen Amerika und Europa. Im Zweiten Weltkrieg stand sie der alten Mutter in Czernowitz bei und entging nur knapp dem nationalsozialistischen Terror. Während eines letzten Aufenthaltes in New York von 1946 bis 1964 entstanden zwischen 1948 und 1956 über 200 englische Gedichte, die auch in der angelsächsischen Welt große Anerkennung fanden. Sie liefern den Schlüssel, um die Veränderungen im Schreibstil bei den deutschsprachigen Gedichten ab 1956 zu verstehen.Rose Ausländer starb 1988 in Düsseldorf.

The experience of living in the Chernovtsy ghetto under the Nazis remains a dark undertow of all the poetry Auslander wrote, though she rarely addresses it explicitly. The hardships of a life in hiding, the constant fear of Nazi terror, the horror of the concentration camps are all present in many of the poems. Other poems speak indirectly of the mother for whose sake she endured these hardships. Her late poetry, represented in this collection, brought her prizes and acclaim, and established her extraordinary simplicity as a distinctive voice in German poetry.