[ book tip by Simone Pervenche ] Whether you are a German-speaker or not, Rose Ausländer is still worthy of mention when it comes to poetry. Her words. Regenwörter – rain words. Fluid words, vector words, dynamic words. But also words that get us wet, spatter us as spontaneously essential. Her writing is profoundly rich in semantics, which makes it capable of speaking to several generations, who then reunite in it. It is a poetry of force, the force of the poetic voice faced with a world no longer conceivable in the form of pure reality. This poetry should motivate us to go beyond a world we can no longer accept as is. It is a lucid, even luminous poetry. And it is good to stroll in it at night, as we would beneath a lantern that lights up the path we are clearing. Sometimes desperate, sometimes apprehensive, and sometimes in a state of fulfilment, Rose Ausländer’s words erect a special landscape for us. She offers the displaced a home and the orphan a mother. But it is also a poetry of ashes. It is about what you leave, what you want to leave to the world. And what appears essential to say before your fall. In this movement, we perceive every hope and every weakness a person might have. The doubts. And then the conviction. So I recommend your turning the pages of this book with a gaze that is able to move from a sense of candour to the abyssal. Rose Ausländer’s poetry is something you can pass on to those you love.

[ book info ] Ausländer, Rose: Regenwörter. Gedichte. (Book language: Allemand) Reclam, Stuttgart, 1994 . ISBN: 978-3-15-008959-0.
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