Gerhard Falkner, born in 1951, is a poet, playwright, essayist and translator. The publication of his first volume of poetry, so beginnen am körper die tage (so begin the days along your body) received enormous critical acclaim, comparable only to the echoes after Grünbein’s appearance ten years later. The volume was followed by der atem unter der erde (the breath beneath the ground) 1984 and wemut in 1989.

In Grüningen. Nothing but pain

Barefoot I walk in front of the Deutsche Bank and speak of the ribbed man— the ribbed man surprises in the morning before a plot full of bones

Seven beloveds

my first beloved is not named laura and not liliana she doesn't dance and doesn't sleep and isn't alive she does not resemble god

The red shoes

a stranger I awakened and early the plug still plugged in a woman, smaller than a horse handed me an apple in English:

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