Cuneiform Press

“Fachsprachen = lingos, but there's no jargon here: the fach is the poet's own discipline, the tool is language, and Stolterfoht bends it, twists it and shapes it anew, piling words on top of each other in a veritable torrent of phonemes, the sounds hammering home.”

—Tony Frazier

Ulf Stolterfoht is clearly at the edge of the edge of innovative poetry in Germany today, and Cuneiform is pleased to bring Lingos VI (the poet's first book translated into English by Rosmarie Waldrop) into print. Stolterfoht's witty precision and philosophical punch are what linger in the mind’s inner ear while his terse and demanding lyrics reconfigure the limits of our language—the limits of our world.

20 pp., 21 x 14 cm. (2007). Set in Quadraat, this edition is limited to 250 copies. Printed offset in two colors on Mohawk Ultrawhite Eggshell with Fabriano coverstock printed on a flatbed cylinder proof press from photopolymer plates.

$13.50 includes S&H

Ulf Stolterfoht was born 1963 in Stuttgart and now lives in Berlin with his wife and three children. He has published 3 books of poems, all called Fachsprachen [technical terms, jargons, lingos]: Fachsprachen I-IX (1998), Fachsprachen X-XVIII (2002), for which he received the Hans-Erich-Nossack-Förderpreis and the Christine Lavant-Preis respectively, and most recently Fachsprachen XIX-XXVII (2004), which received the Anna-Seghers-Prize in 2005. Rosmarie Waldrop’s translation of Lingos I-IX will be published by Burning Deck in fall 2007.

Rosmarie Waldrop’s trilogy (The Reproduction of Profiles, Lawn of Excluded Middle and Reluctant Gravities) has just been reprinted by New Directions under the title: Curves to the Apple. Her collected essays, Dissonance (if you are interested), is out from University of Alabama Press.