all good

A poem can be found in everything: in computer error messages, in the headlines of the tabloid press, in obituaries as well as in the Bundesliga table or in standardized response letters from prize committees and publishers. The author Clemens Schittko is someone who finds poems rather than invents them. His list-like textual creations show us the absurdities of the digital world in an analog form, which arise from an increasingly absurd real world and are even part of it. Schittko's poetic method of accumulation points to today's hyperthrophy of production and control. In the monomaniacal display of linguistic finds, the perfidies of mass media consciousness become apparent. Against the backdrop of late capitalist blues, Schittko melancholically juxtaposes anti-poems about love's pain and death: true gems of self-irony and stylistic understatement. Clemens Schittko's poetic conceptualism is among the most original contributions to contemporary German-language poetry.