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WU WEI EATS AN EGG IBD

BEN YEHUDA PRESS
08 / 2025
9781963475753
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Sinopsis

Wu Wei Eats an Eggáintroduces fascinating Dutch poet Lucas Hirsch. Alternatingly enraged at and bemused by the 21st century, with its traps of bourgeois excess, addiction, and 'hollow language,' Hirsch regularly explores the interior self, familial history, and the physical world (in which a tree 'writ[es] a poem' each day in front of the speakerâÇÖs window). Both personally expressionistic and socially engaged, HirschâÇÖs poems feel like some combination of Allen Ginsberg, Adrienne Rich, and later Franz Wright. ThereâÇÖs also an exhilarating mix of reverence and irreverence, popular culture and 'high literature'-something translator Donna Spruijt-Metz captures brilliantly in her English versions of HirschâÇÖs poems. This book offers a unique and exciting enlargement of our understanding of 21st century poetry.-Wayne Miller, author ofáThe End of ChildhoodWhat to admire most in Lucas HirschâÇÖsáWu Wei Eats an Egg? ItâÇÖs hard to say since I admire so much. Certainly I was caught first by HirschâÇÖs cool read of contemporary culture: its automation and stresses, the poetâÇÖs ambivalent investment. Then I thought about emotion, the keen raw precision of the bookâÇÖs evocation of grief-and also, alongside grief, love, joy and wonder, hope, even indifference. IâÇÖm struck by the structure of both of the book and its poems and by the poetâÇÖs controlled restlessness through various forms, so many crucial ideas. But evidently what I like best about this book is that I know IâÇÖll come back to it again and again.áWu Wei Eats an Eggáis profound, provocative and beautifully done.-Dave King, author ofáThe Ha-Ha

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