Beate Tröger Recommends Autumn Poetry Collections, Including Kerstin Preiwuß's "Rodeo"

In the Freitag, poetry specialist Beate Tröger recommends contemporary poetry collections for autumn that open perspectives and pose the right questions, ranging from apocalyptic to everyday and consistently surprising. Among the highlighted volumes are works by Preiwuß, Hennemann and Geißler, which use poetry to illuminate the issues of our time. Tröger describes these four collections as more than reading material — an experience. The featured title is "Rodeo. Gedichte" by Kerstin Preiwuß. Born in 1980 in Lübz, Preiwuß faces considerable difficulties with each new poem and each new volume, given her serious commitment to the craft of poetry. Her latest poetry collection, Rodeo, appears at the same time as her novel Wir alle, which has been nominated for the Wilhelm-Raabe-Preis. In the motto of Rodeo, Preiwuß states: "Die Welt zerfällt in Tatsachen. Die Welt zerfällt ja tatsächlich," and the cover already illustrates that in this volume. The full article is available in the current issue of the Freitag.