Days of Earthly Exile - Sashe, Alexandra
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Alexandra Sashe is a poet whose work is infused with a kind of religious ecstasy, deeply inspired by the poetry of Paul Celan and, spiritually, by the mystical thinkers of the Eastern Church. Her background in four different languages lies behind the entire book, leading to surprising but evocative discoveries as she stretches the resources of her new language, making it do things that are not always natural to it, but which need to be expressed in this way: poetry often attempts to express the unsayable, to explore the inner reaches of experience through language, and Alexandra Sashe's work…mehr

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Alexandra Sashe is a poet whose work is infused with a kind of religious ecstasy, deeply inspired by the poetry of Paul Celan and, spiritually, by the mystical thinkers of the Eastern Church. Her background in four different languages lies behind the entire book, leading to surprising but evocative discoveries as she stretches the resources of her new language, making it do things that are not always natural to it, but which need to be expressed in this way: poetry often attempts to express the unsayable, to explore the inner reaches of experience through language, and Alexandra Sashe's work goes further along this uneven path than most of her contemporaries. Days of Earthly Exile is her third collection.
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Alexandra Sashe is a bilingual poet. Born in Moscow in 1976, she studied painting and linguistics. In her mid-twenties she moved to Paris and began to write: at first, prose; then - as an essentialized way of living a language - poetry. The choice of the language, however, was neither her mother tongue (which quickly reverted to rudiments) nor yet French (which, penetrating ever deeper into her intimate being, would soon become her inner speech). Rather, it was the Language itself that had made its choice, as spontaneous as it seemed necessary: English. Alexandra Sashe is a bilingual poet. Born in Moscow in 1976, she studied painting and linguistics. In her mid-twenties she moved to Paris and began to write: at first, prose; then - as an essentialized way of living a language - poetry. The choice of the language, however, was neither her mother tongue (which quickly reverted to rudiments) nor yet French (which would soon become her inner speech). Rather, it was the Language itself that had made its choice, as spontaneous as it seemed necessary: English. In 2013 her first collection of poems, Antibodies, was published by Shearsman Books. Around the same time she moved to Austria and settled in Vienna. Shearsman Books published her second collection, Convalescence Dance, in 2018. Days of Earthly Exile is her third.