Lutz Seiler was born in 1963 in Gera, Thuringia. Today he lives and works as Director of the Peter Huchel House in Wilhelmshorst near Berlin. He is the founder and co-editor of the literary journal moosbrand published by Janus Press, Berlin. He was awarded bursaries by the Senator for Culture, Berlin, in 1994 and by Stiftung Kulturfonds in 1996.
In 1997 he received a stipend from Literaturfonds Darmstadt for his work on a new collection of poems.
once founded we are a phloem
on the bark
a guest of the bark & inner child
of the arterial roads. these
...
the steps remembered the dark, the break
between lessons in the woods, the ringing above the staircase, the beatings
that went with the nouns, the mnemonic salt hunched up
...
what blew at us from large peopled trees
was originally deepened
into the time of conversations, tree language
was baumkuchen and lay
...
we were sitting in the jardin du luxembourg. there was
a café under chestnut trees, the chairs
were placed on pebble. there was a breeze and
...
… there were aspen leaves, dry bread, ca-
priciously distributed around the animals' flesh, it was
their fast living which sank at our feet, so we didn't
...