# Shining Sheep: Poems - Hardcover

by **Ulrike Almut Sandig** (Author), **Karen Leeder** (Translator)

**A collection of vital, melancholic, elemental, and vibrantly contemporary poems.**

In the beginning, was the light, or was it the Lumières? In Ulrike Almut Sandig's latest volume of poetry, it is only a leap from the creation of the world to the symphony of the Berlin metropolis. And there is a question holding out off the coast of Lampedusa: Can shining sheep be used as night storage for the dark hours, when we are overwhelmed with fears of God, of a gym teacher with a whistle, of mothers with eyes as black as coal? In devastating sequences, Sandig charts the reality of an abused child, victims of contemporary war, or a fourteenth-century Madonna. Full of humor, musicality, lightness, and rage, _Shining Sheep_ is not just visual poetry--it has loops in your ear and filmic explosions of imagery for all your senses.

### Author Biography

**Ulrike Almut Sandig** has written five volumes of poetry, along with short stories and a novel _Monsters Like Us_, also published by Seagull. She often works with filmmakers, sound artists, and musicians, including especially her poetry-band Landschaft. **Karen Leeder** is a writer, critic, and prize-winning translator of contemporary German literature including work by Durs Grünbein, Volker Braun, Michael Krüger, Evelyn Schlag, and Raoul Schrott.  

**Number of Pages:** 132

**Dimensions:** 0.63 x 8.43 x 5.2 IN

**Publication Date:** March 07, 2024

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