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Krimgotische Gedichte / Eissa Baftica (1987)

Oskar Pastior

Lautpoesie Oskar Pastoir

Title: Oskar Pastoir: Crimean Gothic Poems /
Eißa Baftica (Track 10)
Published on the compilation: Lautpoesie. An Anthology
Editor: Christian Scholz
Publisher: Gertraud Scholz Verlag, Obermichelbach
Date: 1987
Medium: record 30 cm

 

The Romanian poet and lyricist Oskar Pastior is considered an outstanding word acrobat and language player. He was influenced by Dadaism and sound poetry and often moved on the border between poetry and nonsense.

In recognition of his work, Volker Weidermann described Pastior as a "discoverer of words, an eager explorer of ever new linguistic possibilities, a traveller in the universe of letters, an experimental poet, an avant-gardist, a poet of tradition, a preserver of tradition, an artist of forms, a poet of the future, who is always able to poeticise new, ever more astonishing sounds and meanings out of a single word". (FAZ, 14.05.2006).

Pastior developed new word and sentence creations from different languages and dialects, which he called the "Crimgotic fan". The poem heard here also belongs to this Pastiorian trend.

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