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In this volume, Khalfani deals with the major themes: with the time, which sits "like a cage" in the "bird's head", or rises like a magic carpet and also dreams (of itself!). With the Awaywho rests restlessly by our bed, or gets up and goes and comes back, and doesn't need our feet. Or with perception and therefore communication. Eyes that walk blindly through the light and see only what has remained in their memory as an aftermath of distant stars. Ears pricked up attentively, but understanding nothing.

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Fixpoetry:

With "Nachtschwimmer" the literary scholar Salem Khalfani, who was born in Iran in 1963, presents his first volume of poetry in German, after his novella "Das Valencianisches Wasser" had previously been published. His gentle poems are excursions into the realm of contrasts. (...) more

- Gerrit Wurstmann