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Luxembourg

This selection offers several linguistic routes into Luxembourg’s writing, with a clear emphasis on poetry and short forms. Begin with Rewenig’s satirical miniatures or Anne-Marie Reuter’s English-language stories. Koltz, Portante and Schlechter are represented by English poetry selections; Joris also wrote directly in English. This is a six-author guide rather than an artificially completed fifty-book canon.

Books to begin with

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Edition cover: Your Heart of Ice is Hot As Vice — Guy Rewenig
English edition

Guy Rewenig

Your Heart of Ice is Hot As Vice

About the book

This collection of short satirical texts works through paradox and wordplay.

EnglishTranslation

Your Heart of Ice is Hot As Vice

éditions guy binsfeld

Translated by Sandra Schmit

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Jean Portante

In Reality: Selected Poems

About the book

A poetry selection makes the Luxembourg author’s French-language writing available in English.

EnglishTranslation

In Reality: Selected Poems

Seren

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Anise Koltz

At the Edge of Night

About the book

A selection from four collections introduces Anise Koltz’s short, concentrated poetry.

EnglishTranslation

At the Edge of Night

Arc Publications

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Edition cover: On the Edge — Anne-Marie Reuter
English edition

Anne-Marie Reuter

On the Edge

About the book

The collection brings together short stories and flash fiction written in English by a Luxembourg author.

EnglishOriginal

On the Edge

Black Fountain Press

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Edition cover: one day I will write a poem — Lambert Schlechter
English edition

Lambert Schlechter

one day I will write a poem

About the book

An English selection of Schlechter’s nine-line poems shows his work with short forms.

EnglishTranslation

one day I will write a poem

Black Fountain Press

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Pierre Joris

Barzakh: Poems 2000–2012

About the book

The volume gathers Joris’s poems from 2000 to 2012.

EnglishOriginal

Barzakh: Poems 2000–2012

Black Widow Press

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Edition cover: Poasis: Selected Poems 1986–1999 — Pierre Joris
English edition

Pierre Joris

Poasis: Selected Poems 1986–1999

About the book

Selected poems explore exile, language and life between cultures.

EnglishOriginal

Poasis: Selected Poems 1986–1999

Wesleyan University Press

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Pierre Joris

Meditations on the Stations of Mansur al-Hallaj

About the book

A poetry sequence brings Sufi mysticism into dialogue with language and violence.

EnglishOriginal

Meditations on the Stations of Mansur al-Hallaj

Chax Press

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