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.
trees bursting buds, what an april.
what a meagre blessing, chestnut
buds on the chrome of cars, what
a meagre rain, forsythias yellow
...
blinks
bar & bosom
blinks
brightly striped dominatrix
gives herself
...
like light
in fissures hollows towers
light flows up in
cells. you are. but where?
...
into it were poured
the years that followed
i'll give you sugar for a good start
as if you were a horse spurs
...
Today, the frogs - once princes
shot flat against the wall,
all this in the depths of life -
...