Helle Verwirrung/Rincks Ding- und Tierleben

Monika Rinck's new book is a double album: "Bright Confusion" brings together new poems, while "Rinck's Thing & Animal Life" features animals, devices, and poets coming together on a strange day. Here, you'll find over-soulful totem animals and beings that do not understand their punishment, burden cats, administrators, mocking weathers, and the training that devices impose on humans. Drawings and texts form an encyclopedia on clay hooves, their entries are ready for the innermost as well as stretched to the outermost, because "all nonsense must be done by oneself." It's time to set off, in bright confusion "because of the quince," on lines that extend beyond the end. Through "exhausted concepts" and "moods of the leaves" to "Berlin Alexanderplatz - what your arms can hold," they lead us back to the question: What can I make from the quince? A container for abandonment, a squeaky receipt, a comet without any radiance, the Last Judgment, I can throw it into the pond and see what happens - or: I can also sing you a song about it. Because the world is indeed there, even in bright confusion.