Michael Donhauser who has lived in Vienna since 1976, was born as an Austrian citizen in Vaduz (Liechtenstein) in 1956.
He studied German and Romanic languages and literature, and has published several acclaimed volumes of poetry and prose. Donhauser has translated poetry by Arthur Rimbaud, Francis Ponge and Michael Hamburger, and is the recipient of a number of important prizes, including the Manuskripte Prize (1990) and, most recently, the Christian Wagner Prize (2002).
Late perhaps one evening one
one evening late perhaps
A glass filled up with anis and
a voice that weeps
...
Through the night
we will, however
- eternal gesture -
lightly hoard
...
Rites of the evening glen
path and violence the eyes
burst open buds we said
look and the sky glowed
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The fervent or seeing
the branches bend and
warmer still or breaking
heavy with fruit what
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