Father s on the Phone with the Flies A Selection

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An unexpected, exciting work from one of the most protean writers ever to win the Nobel Prize.

To create the poems in this collection, Herta Muller cut up countless newspapers and magazines in search of striking phrases, words, or even fragments of words, which she then arranged in the form of a collage. Father's on the Phone with the Flies presents seventy-three of Muller's collage poems for the first time in English translation, alongside full-color reproductions of the originals. Muller takes full advantage of the collage form, generating poems rich in wordplay, ambiguity, and startling, surreal metaphors-the disruption and dislocation at their core rendered visible through stark contrasts in color, font, and type size. Liberating words from conformity and coercion, Muller renders them fresh and invests them forcefully with personal experience.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781803090450
Published: September 2022

Number of pages: 200
Width: 127 mm
Height: 202 mm
Depth: 12 mm

Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd