Gottesanbieterin

Nora Gomringer is increasingly being asked the Gretchen question and answers it in essays, speeches, stories and, of course, poems. This is often done comically and with a twinkle in her eye; her and everyone's faith is personal. The lyricist has most recently dealt with earthly fears, illnesses and phenomena of the superficial, but the metaphysical has always been inherent - and if we think of Gomringer's hike with a lisping, lonesome man, we can't help but think of her poems.Gomringer's hike with a lisping ermine talking about human loneliness, it is hardly surprising that another animal encounter is the trigger for the poems collected in this volume: Many years ago, the poet encountered a giant grasshopper in the US backyard of her then host family: the praying mantis. It was this one-hour encounter of silence that led Gomringer to question earthly existence and the multifaceted nature of religion, that 'flavour-enhancing, sometimes tolerable, sometimes incompatible glutamate of being'. This collection of poems brings together a selection of Gomringer's reflections on this world and the hereafter since then.