Ein anderes Wort fr einverstanden

The Swiss author explores states of consciousness in her poems - balancing between a conscious gaze at life and a subconscious perception of the world. Both have an impact on one's own becoming. Her poems revolve around questions of identity formation. They examine how a lyrical self arrives at its seemingly fixed yet often fragile identity as a woman and mother. The author addresses this in the poem cycle "Everyday Life & Descent," tracing the effects of social role behavior and pressure to conform. In the poem cycle "There Is No Manual," she confronts the themes of assisted dying and death. In the poem cycle in the Aargau dialect "How We Are," Nathalie Schmid captures the linguistic proximity of everyday life with an indigenous language. For Nathalie Schmid, poetry is an analytical tool that reveals, line by line, how the lyrical self could become the voice that now begins to speak. Influenced by her engagement with Anglo-Saxon authors such as Robert Hass, Anne Carson, and Eileen Myles, Nathalie Schmid adds her distinctive voice to this chorus.