Description

Schirin Nowrousian's poetry is extremely flexible and at the same time solid, and it is extremely varied. It speaks of the ever-bubbling joy of exploding and crossing borders: the reader finds in this poetry a liveliness and joy in experimentation, which allows him to experience the aspects of life discussed there in the truest sense of the word up close (and sometimes getting under the skin). It is a lyric of appeal as well as of withdrawal, of decoupling and renunciation, a lyric that speaks very directly, unadorned, and a lyric that is full of sentences, words and phrases that seem mysterious and full of what is felt, Intuition that runs through and through, and far-reaching, timeless streams of thought on human existence and the unhuman, the earth itself.

With Ast and From Paris today... the poet and writer Schirin Nowrousian presents her second and third volumes of poetry. In July 2008 her first volume was published by farpoint recordings in Dublin in a German-English edition: Ziryabs Gnu. This - in the chronology of things - the first volume is, however, the intended third volume of a very special "trilogy": the "Trilogik des Griffes". Ast and From Paris today... now represent the first two 'wings' of this trilogy. They appear in a twin pack and thus complete the triple 'cycle'.