mârsyâs dàr éhâtéh - Anja Utler

ISBN 9789186131142

Farsi by Sam Vaseghi

The cycle that is presented here revolves around the satyr Marsyas, the challenger of Apollo, to whom he subsequently succumbed in a musical contest and as a result was skinned. The prostrate figure of Marsayas, a resounding image in cultural and literary history, emerges, mediated through the perspectives of these differing epochs and media. In ever-shifting approaches, Utler dissects Marsayas’ defenceless and suffering body, removing him from the piercing gaze of Apollo. The text styles Marsyas as having a poetic-phonetic ‘oneness’ with himself and his environment – perhaps also an appropriate description of Utler’s work in general. In the end, the cycle of Marsyas finally releases him, with dancing phoneticism, in an expectant land (“harrendes land”) on the other side of language.

Anja Utler was born in Schwandorf in 1973. She studied eastern Slavonic languages and literature, Anglistics and elocution in Regensburg, Norwich and St Petersburg. She made her poetry debut in 1999 with the volume aufsagen. In 2003, Utler received a doctorate for her thesis on female Russian Modernist poets. In the same year, she was presented with the Leonce-und-Lena-Preis, the most important award for young poets in the German-speaking world. She now lives in Vienna.

pages 44, 6.14" x 9.21", saddle-stitch binding, white interior paper (55# weight), black and white interior ink, white exterior paper (90# weight), full-color exterior ink

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