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Finally, Marcel Beyer presents a new collection of poems. The title hints at the thematic framework: Materiality. Things, whether flowers, feathers, shit, or the West, that can be found among colleagues from all times and can be newly integrated; the texture of the most diverse everyday and political voices. For Marcel Beyer, such polyphony is the only effective antidote to the entire monolithic, fanatic, fascist, and chauvinistic nonsense in poetry and the discourse surrounding it. Materiality as a distinguishing feature of the other arts, whose echoing effect these poems capture: the writing inspired by photographs, the writing with the perspective that an emerging poem will be recited by a foreign voice, and sung. Materiality as a special constellation of an art form: D.