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Selected Texts
from the Daniil Pashkoff Prize 2010

Excerpt:
HOMECOMING
Stella Rieck · Berlin

Holy procession
the symphony of morning dust beams
wakens the old assembly,
caresses the fuzzy outlines
of the beloved moth-eaten furniture.

Yet your brutal key in the door
leaves the lock wailing,
while the stairs hiss hateful
tunes of your stomping footsteps.

Dirty dish ranges
scream at your blank
face, scream with the debris of
thoughtlessness.
Neglect on neglect builds grimy
rinds on their surface,
like tree rings
they carry the signs of your aging.

Even the hopelessly decomposing armchair
turns adamantine
and cold as stone
as it sighs under your massive behind.

There will be no refuge here,
you intruder you.
Ignoramus
trying to reclaim
what has outgrown your dominion
in the hours of waiting.

I wonder,
if you don’t live here anymore,
who does?

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Writers Ink. e.V., Braunschweig
ISBN 978-3-9813742-0-9
124 Pages, 5,00 EUR
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In the silence a whisper
Selections from the Daniil Pashkoff Prize
2006 / 2008

Excerpt:
A WINTER MEMORY
Angela Beyer · Braunschweig

out into the snow
where whirling flakes soften the world
shut out everything
everybody
leave me alone in a world of my own
in the silence a whisper
follow me into the woods
to a dancing child
black and white
the forest embraces me
blue and cold
I'm caressed by its shadows
winter coats
red yellow
disappear between the trees
in the silence children's laughing
echoes swell up around me
follow me
lead me
linger over the frozen surface
we're dancing on a humming pond
murmurs
faces
whirling dancers
melting

Writers Ink. e.V., Braunschweig
ISBN 978-3-00-024680-7
126 Pages, 5,00 EUR
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Feel the Words Burning on Your Tongue
Selections from the Daniil Pashkoff Prize
2003 / 2004 / 2005

Excerpt:
THE SIMPLE PAST
Jelena Radovanovic-Kuckler · Braunschweig,
Cacak, Serbia

Because i came in that silent night
Like a haughty sharp spear
Because i attracted insects with a smile
And because my eloquence silenced the crowd
And if i turned my back on you like on a petty slave
And if i ignored the history of insults
And acted amnesia perfectly
And if iate the heads of all the base pawns
It does not mean that within
I did not curl up small
Like a captive turtle

Writers Ink. e.V., Braunschweig
ISBN-10: 3-00-018975-0
ISBN 13: 978-3-00-018975-3
102 Pages, 5,00 EUR

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Life is but a Verse well-rhymed and bold
Selections from the Daniil Pashkoff Prize
2001 / 2002

Excerpt:
LOVE LETTERS PER INTERNET
by Eva Linde

Once, when my little brother’s toy plane was sinking
He gave this advice to his passengers:
“We have to lose weight, please
Throw all of your dreams overboard!”
I still believe he can make it.
“I wonder why nobody ever gave a Nobel prize
To the guy who invented dreams.”
Teachers said that was an amazing
Grammatical expression for such a little boy.
I sing my kitty a birthday song and
Pray to God not to let the World
Make a Realist out of him.

Writers Ink. e.V., Braunschweig
ISBN 3-00-010087-3
102 Pages, 5,00 EUR

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Zwischen Stacheldraht und Horizont
Deutsche und Englische Gedichte 1980-2007
by Stephanie Lammers a member of Writers Ink.


Reiseimpression. Portrait. Tagebuch. Selbst-
therapie. Schnappschuss. Stimmungsbild.
Wortspiel. Protest. Ein Gedicht kann all das
sein und noch viel mehr. Der vorliegende
Gedichtsband enthält Gedichte in zwei Sprachen,
aus drei Jahrzehnten, über vier Kontinenten...

Warum ich die englischen Gedichte nicht einfach
ins Deutsche übersetzt habe?
”Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”
Robert Frost
Books on Demand
ISBN 978-3-8370-7048-4
84 Pages, 9,90 EUR