Fathers On The Phone With The Files

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 Müller 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. Fathers on the Phone with the Flies presents seventythree of Müllers collage poems for the first time in English translation alongside fullcolor reproductions of the originals. Müller takes full advantage of the collage form generating poems rich in wordplay ambiguity and startling surreal metaphorsthe disruption and dislocation at their core rendered visible through stark contrasts in color font and type size. Liberating words from conformity and coercion Müller renders them fresh and invests them forcefully with personal experience.