Thick of It by Ulrike Almut Sandig, trans. by Karen Leeder Sarah Westcott I had always thought the

I had always thought the critical essay and the poem were closely related forms

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Thick of It by Ulrike Almut Sandig, trans. by Karen Leeder Sarah Westcott I had always thought theThe poems of Ulrike Almut Sandig are at once simple and fantastic. This new collection finds her on her way to imaginary territories. Thick of It charts a journey through two hemispheres to the center of the world and navigates a thicket that is at once the world, the psyche, and language itself. The poems explore an urgently urban reality, but that reality is interwoven with references to nightmares, the Bible, fairy tales, and nursery rhymesall