Ulrike Draesner, born 1962 in Munich, lives in Berlin. Studied German, English and Philosophy in Munich and Oxford. Ph.D. 1992. Free-lance author, translator, literary critic and editor since 1994.

Draesner has received numerous awards, her latest being the Hölderlin Förderpreis 2001 and the Preis der Literaturhäuser in 2002.

Forsythias, yellow exploding, still leafless, their dicing

trees bursting buds, what an april. what a meagre blessing, chestnut buds on the chrome of cars, what a meagre rain, forsythias yellow

Track over arch (savignyplatz, berlin)

blinks bar & bosom blinks brightly striped dominatrix gives herself

On grammar

like light in fissures hollows towers light flows up in cells. you are. but where?

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