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Among many others, her beloved Derrida, Duchamp, Hölderlin, and Jean-Paul all appear, almost like guides, as Mayröcker bravely makes her way through infirmity, old age, and loneliness, prolonging her time as a prolific writer as much as possible.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49743118205201,"sku":"NGR9781803091426","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50137605013777,"sku":"GOR013868090","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51054523318545,"sku":"NIN9781803091426","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1803091428.jpg?v=1750802647"},{"product_id":"etudes-book-friederike-mayrcker-9781803091839","title":"etudes","description":"A diary-like sequence of poems from one of Austria’s best-known contemporary voices.   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After all, she says, a poem is that which “opens everything up.” Each poem is date-stamped, and each date acts as a kind of permission for Mayröcker to pour in everything from notes on doctor’s visits to gorgeously structured elegies to obsessively repeating fragments of memory that act upon the whole like bits of recurring melody.     Rarely before has the intimate process of writing been so exquisitely laid bare than in études. 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