{"product_id":"in-the-house-still-light-9781945680861","title":"In the House, Still Light","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eStill Some Light in the House\u003c\/i\u003e is the most recent poetry collection by Switzerland's 2024 \"Grand Prix Literatur\" prize winner, Klaus Merz. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKlaus Merz, a consummate master of the short form, captures the wonders and travails of aging in the alpine countryside reflected in these Taoist influenced poems and prose poems, which have been sculpted by the aging artist with every single word dutifully and carefully considered. Questions of mortality and the afterlife are considered and reflect in the forests, along the creeks and rivers, the mountains and in the blue sky stretching above.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKlaus Merz\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1945 in Aarau and lives in Unterkulm, Switzerland. He has won many literary awards, including the Hermann Hesse Prize for Literature, the Swiss Schiller Foundation Poetry Prize and the Friedrich Holderlin Prize in 2012. He has published over 35 works of poetry and fiction. His latest novel is \u003ci\u003eThe Argentinian\u003c\/i\u003e and his recent collections of verse are \u003ci\u003eOut of the Dust\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUnexpected Development\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHelios Hauls\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003efirm\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarc Vincenz \u003c\/b\u003eis a multi-lingual poet, fiction writer, journalist, translator, editor, musician and artist. He has published over 40 books of poetry, fiction and translation; his translation of Klaus Merz' selected poems, \u003ci\u003eAn Audible Blue: Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, won the 2023 Massachusetts Book Award for Translated Literature. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"White Pine Press (NY)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51967125422354,"sku":"9781945680861","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3646db24-6d42-4d16-b452-8456e146f20d.jpg?v=1768926601","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/in-the-house-still-light-9781945680861","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}