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The poet Ana Luísa Amaral knows that words cannot capture anything except the fleetingness of things. And so, in her new book of poems, which follows in the footsteps of Emily Dickinson and Wisława Szymborska, she lucidly outlines the ephemeral traces of life in language. In June 2021, »What’s in a Name« was ranked No. 1 on SWR’s list of best newly published books. The jury stated that »her poems always have an anchor in everyday life, in a supposedly incidental event, an observation, and expand in a linguistic space of insight and beauty.«
Host: Ricardo Domeneck
Speaker: Imogen Kogge
The poet Ana Luísa Amaral knows that words cannot capture anything except the fleetingness of things. And so, in her new book of poems, which follows in the footsteps of Emily Dickinson and Wisława Szymborska, she lucidly outlines the ephemeral traces of life in language. In June 2021, »What’s in a Name« was ranked No. 1 on SWR’s list of best newly published books. The jury stated that »her poems always have an anchor in everyday life, in a supposedly incidental event, an observation, and expand in a linguistic space of insight and beauty.«
Host: Ricardo Domeneck
Speaker: Imogen Kogge
![Ana Luísa Amaral: What’s in a Name [engl.]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/2UdZ5_qYF9U/mqdefault.jpg "Ana Luísa Amaral: What’s in a Name [engl.]
The poet Ana Luísa Amaral knows that words cannot capture anything except the fleetingness of things. And so, in her new book of poems, which follows in the footsteps of Emily Dickinson and Wisława Szymborska, she lucidly outlines the ephemeral traces of life in language. In June 2021, »What’s in a Name« was ranked No. 1 on SWR’s list of best newly published books. The jury stated that »her poems always have an anchor in everyday life, in a supposedly incidental event, an observation, and expand in a linguistic space of insight and beauty.«
Host: Ricardo Domeneck
Speaker: Imogen Kogge")
![Geert Mak: Große Erwartungen [dt.]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/4YPODV9nMPA/mqdefault.jpg "Geert Mak: Große Erwartungen [dt.]
Konzipiert als Fortschreibung seiner zeithistorischen Bestandsaufnahme »In Europa« [2005], erkundet Geert Mak in seinem aktuellen Buch »Große Erwartungen« so materialreich wie pointenstark das vielfältige Leben auf einem zum Zerreißen gespannten Kontinent. Ist aus dem europäischen Traum ein Alptraum geworden? »Eine sagenhafte Mixtur aus Essay, Reportage und Geschichtsschreibung« [Der Spiegel].
Moderation: Barbara Wahlster")
![Aleksandar Hemon: My Parents [engl.]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/61lvJnFIVdQ/mqdefault.jpg "Aleksandar Hemon: My Parents [engl.]
Aleksandar Hemons memoir »My Parents« poetically recounts his family’s relocation to Canada during the Bosnian War, his mother’s attempts to keep the family together, his father’s passion for beekeeping, and the losses they and their countrymen have suffered. »Hemon probes the way nationalism can structure ways of thinking and even lives« [New York Times].
Host: Bernhard Robben
Speaker: Frank Arnold")
