fugitive moons

Yevgeniy Breyger is one of the most outstanding young voices in German-language poetry of the new century. Jan Kuhlbrodt once aptly described Breyger as a poet not only "knowing all the tricks of the rhythmical trade," but whose poems recall "a kabbalistic incantation," a "mysticism that turns into the absurd, yet also emerges from it once more." Breyger allows himself to revive the old idea of the magic of language without buying into its pathos; he allows himself to probe language once mo...