Three good reasons for poetry

Did Amanda Gorman’s poem for the inauguration of US President Joe Biden also inspire you? Did you think: I could read poetry for a change?

The first hundred days are over

Joe Biden has been in office as U.S. president for more than 100 days, but the good resolution to give poetry a chance may already be forgotten.

Here are three good reasons for poetry:

1. there is room for poetry even in the greatest time stress

For many, late evenings or vacations are the only time left for leisurely immersion in a good book. A few pages and then the eyes fall shut after a long day.

For us, the progress is usually too slow.

A good poem in the evening is enough to switch off and let the thoughts fly far away.

2. a poem is an unforgettable gift

Even though we love good quotes ourselves and love to use them. A poem has a completely different quality. In the age of Romanticism, poems were still generously given as gifts; today, a poem as a gift has rarity value.

Get your fountain pen and good paper ready.

3. Friederike Mayröcker recently died

If you haven’t read any of her poetry or her “proems” yet, if you’ve never heard her brittle Austrian voice, it’s high time now. At Lyrikline.org you can hear them, with the poem: what do you need.

What poetry does GloriousMe read?

Maybe there’s something for you among our favorite authors to get started or get back into.

For current occasion:

as I morning and moss green. Step to the window

Friedrike Mayröcker’s last book was published in July 2020 and has been nominated for the Leipzig Fair Book Prize 2021.

The language imagination and the very own rhythm of speech captivate and leave you speechless.

fleurs by Friedrike Mayröcker

If you are looking for the flowers, the blossoms, cheerful light rhymes in this book with the title, you are in the wrong place. In it you will find unsentimental images, poems and texts that are precise, bold and unsparingly formulated.

We are sure you feel the same way we do. When we put the book down after reading it, only one question remained: Why didn’t we read this much earlier? 

The majority of her works have been published by Suhrkamp Verlag. You might feel like browsing the publisher’s site and ordering a first volume from your local bookseller.

Requiem for Ernst Jandl by Friederike Mayröcker

For those who want to listen first, we recommend the audio production “Requiem for Ernst Jandl”. Ernst Jandl and Friedericke Mayröcker lived next door to each other in Vienna’s Zentagasse in the 5th district for decades and were deeply connected life partners.

An obituary of a great love in Viennese speech sound.

“…this time you have gone too far”.

To understand the night again

Poems to the Night by Rainer Maria Rilke

The Poems to the Night was given by Rainer Maria Rilke to his friend Rudolf Kassner, whom he called “the most important person I know” and whom he esteemed as “one of the most excellent and giving in company”.

Why this book of poems?

Because we no longer know the night and its power.

Darkness, peace and silence, the power to form memories and thoughts, all this has become unknown in our world where light shines almost 24 hours a day and Netflix & Co. are available at all times during sleepless hours. 

See Also

THE PERFECT GLASS FOR G&T

Rainer Maria Rilke takes us off into the night in this small, slim, beautifully designed book of poems from Insel Verlag.

Because few words are enough

Letter from roses by Rose Ausländer

How often do we hear a torrent of words with which nothing is said. The opposite is the case with Rose Ausländer. No word is too much.

When one considers the stations in the life of the poet, who was born in 1901 in Czernowitz, Bukovina, then Austria-Hungary (Bukovina, Budapest, Vienna, New York, Bukovina, New York, Vienna, Düsseldorf – rarely voluntarily, often on the run), one senses what experiences have been reduced here to individual words, from which a great calm radiates.

And Amanda Gorman?

The poem for the inauguration of the US president, her poem for the Super Bowl finale. Two events where the eyes of the world were on them. She made a great impression both times and we are sure we will hear, see AND read a lot more from her. 

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