Twenty Poems

This bilingual chapbook of 20 poems by the German poet Kathrin Schmidt draws together work from five of her six collections published before and after the 1990 reunification of the two Germanys, and makes for an exciting introduction to her work. Thanks to Sue Vickerman’s effervescent translations, we are able to appreciate Schmidt’s irrepressible poetic style as she ranges across the themes of gender, identity, the body, eroticism, her own personal history and language itself.