“Tzveta Sofronieva’s Multiverse: New and Selected Poems is an absolutely remarkable achievement. Scholar and poet Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, the volume’s exemplary editor (this collection reflects four decades of poetry), notes in her superb introduction that Sofronieva’s multilingualism, as well as her training as a physicist and in the philosophy of science, has allowed her to create poems that defy both literary (and linguistic) borders and our conventional sense of fixed boundaries between disciplines. This work is protean and intellectually liquid, iridescent in its fragments and radically innovative in its project of producing constructions/constellations of lyric materiality. This is a wildly provocative collection that explodes the habitual verse of our moment even as it maps a possible trajectory into our literary future.” – David St. John

A new collection of poems by two Bulgarian poets: Rumiana Ebert and Tzveta Sofronieva in the original Bulgarian and in English translation. This is the first in the Paekakariki Press Poems in Translation series. Rumiana Ebert is a writer, translator and chemist. Born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, she moved to Germany in 1966 and gained a PhD in Chemistry from the Technical University in Munich. She also studied Musicology at the University of Heidelberg. She has published four books of poems in German: Entgegenkommen, (Kastell, 1992) and Schnittstellen, (Kastell, 1996); Ecken und Ovale, (Wieser, 2013) and Mitlesebuch 135, (Aphaia, 2017). Tzveta Sofronieva is the author of twenty collections of poetry, short stories, essays and translations. Her work also encompasses poetry installations and she has edited several anthologies. Born in Sofia, Bulgaria, she now is settled in Berlin and has a PhD in History of Science.

“Прегърнати от мъглата” е петата поетична книга на Цвета Софрониева на български. В нея са включени няколко цикли от стихотворения, посветени на философията на съществуването на човека. Авторката въвежда понятието “антропосцена”.

„Anthroposzene” stellt den Menschen und seinen Selbstinszenierungstrieb in den Mittelpunkt des Geschehens. Die Gedichte behandeln kunstvoll, vielschichtig und mit sprachlicher Variabilität brennende Themen unserer Zeit: Terrorismus, Religion, Lebensmitteldesign, Klimaänderung, kulturelle Übersetzung. Scharfsinnig stellt Sofronieva die Lyrik als Alternative allem selbstzerstörerischen Handeln gegenüber, das die Erde gefährdet.

selected affordable studio apartments stellt Ortlosigkeit als Normalität im Leben des modernen Menschen dar. Dabei vermittelt Tzveta Sofronievas neuer Gedichtband vor allem Mut zur kontinuierlichen Suche nach eigenen Räumen. In ihrem Zyklus widmet sich die Autorin der Mehrsprachigkeit und der Übersetzbarkeit und problematisiert gleichzeitig die nationale Verortung der Lyrik und die Gesetze des Marktes.

Die viersprachige Ausgabe ist eine Hommage an Yvan Goll, für den die Mehrsprachigkeit eine poetische Notwendigkeit war und die Ortlosigkeit Schicksal. In den literarischen Sprachen Sofronievas und Golls, im Dialog mit eingeflochtenen Zitaten des Dichters sowie mit beigefügten Fotografien aus seinem Archiv, bewegen sich die Gedichte zwischen Nähe und Distanz, Gestern und Heute, wobei die Autorin nicht die Vergangenheit, sondern die Zukunft hinterfragt.

Many of the major figures in the history of science have produced literary works, but the relationship between their poetic texts and their scientific work is often underestimated. This paper illuminates the poetry of Erwin Schrödinger—one of the premier figures in twentieth-century science, and an accomplished poet in both English and his native German. It discusses existing perceptions of his poetry and challenges the assumptions that his poetic work was a mere hobby unrelated to his other achievements by focusing on the interplay between poetic images and scientific ideas in his German-language poems. It emphasizes that more research is needed on the understated role of bilingualism and of—often marginalized—writing in an adopted language in science and in poetry, with the premise that this feature of Schrödinger’s life deserves more study. It argues that Schrödinger’s literary imagination and his bilingualism are an integral part of his approach to reality and considers Schrödinger’s literary work to be an important aspect of his intellectual heritage.

Tzveta Sofronieva ist in vielen Welten zu Hause: In ihrer Heimat Bulgarien, wo sie in Sofia geboren wurde, und in Berlin, wo die gelernte Physikerin lebt, in den USA und in Asien; sie kennt sich aus in der Welt der Naturwissenschaften und der Philosophie; sie interessiert sich für Sprachen und dafür, wie die Bedeutungen der Wörter sich ändern, wenn sie ihren kulturellen Kontext verlassen; sie schreibt selbst auf Deutsch, Bulgarisch und Englisch; sie liebt die Mythologie und versucht, deren Muster in die Gegenwart zu retten. Mit einem Wort: Tzveta Sofronieva ist eine jener modernen Dichterinnen in Europa, die sich ihr Leben und ihre Lyrik nicht mehr von Grenzen einengen lassen.

“Tzveta Sofronieva’s poetry sparkles. Her memories go from Homer and Dostoyevski to Charlie Chaplin’s dance steps. Above all Sofronieva is a mythological poet. Each narration is a Cavafian voyage, never completed in order to wonder. The lucent version by Chantal Wright captures the verse and fluid images of Sofronieva’s poetry.” — Willis Barnstone

Künstlerbuch – Leporello
Linolschnitt/experimenteller Handsatz, Handpressendruck, 8 Seiten,
Format 31 x 120 cm (Leporellolänge), 2010

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