Daniela Seel

[ich habe mir ihren körper dann einfach]

Language: german

Translations: swedish ([då knöt jag helt enkelt hennes kropp]), spanish ([tomé el cuerpo de ella])

[ich habe mir ihren körper dann einfach]

ich habe mir ihren körper dann einfach
umgebunden wie eine schürze.

distanz gewinnen, eine bewegung,
die nur in der zeit existiert, nicht im raum.

wie sinne verhalten steuern. ihrer stimme
habe ich immer vertraut, nicht den augen.

ich kann nicht aufhören, das zu wiederholen.
einträge von ausrichtung. diese bewegung,

die meinen körper konstituiert. ihre stille,
dressierte präsenz. ich will diese schürze

nie wieder ausziehen.

Daniela Seel

photo © Axel Kahrs

* 04.12.1974, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
lives in: Berlin, Germany

Daniela Seel, born 1974 in Frankfurt/Main, is a poet, publisher, editor, and translator. In 2000 she was co-founder of KOOKread, the literary branch of the artist's network KOOK ‒ together with fellow authors Jan Böttcher, Alexander Gumz, Karla Reimert, and Uljana Wolf. Emerging from KOOK, and supported by book artist and illustrator Andreas Töpfer as Art Director, in 2003 she founded kookbooks – Lab for Poetry as Life Form. Her poems appeared in magazines, newspapers, anthologies, on the internet, and radio. Her first book-length collection of poems I cannot find this place again was published by kookbooks in 2011. Some of her poems were translated into Polish, English, Slovak, Czech, French, Norwegian, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Serbian, and Croatian. She received the Friedrich Hölderlin Sponsorship Award, the Ernst Meister Sponsorship Award, and the Lotto Brandenburg Art Prize Literature. Daniela Seel lives in Berlin.

photo © Axel Kahrs

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