I Am A Field Full Of Rapeseed

we find ourselves deep in the future of fairy tale. we are the offspring of our own imaginings. Ulrike Almut Sandigs second volume of poems to be translated into English is a journey through a world that is imaginary yet entirely recognizable. Precise observation of the concrete is mixed with playful humor inspired musicality and an anxious reckoning with undercurrents of violence. Borrowing from the Brothers Grimm the collection explores the darker side of their fairy tales as a backdrop for very contemporary concerns Migration war the rise of the new right ecological threat information overload and political apathy. At the same time Sandig plays with the German meaning of the word Grimm rage. That emotion permeates the collection as a reaction to the darkness in the collective German consciousness. Yet the book is also animated by the passionate expansive empathyand reminds us what it is to be human. Always inventive Sandig teases us here with multiple versions of the self and multiple voices all in search of the origins of poetry in hidden places in the silence before language in the wings in the field of rapeseed deep in the snow.