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In einer eMail vom 16.08.2005 15:57:54 Westeuropäische Normalzeit schreibt  
Rcfchess at aol.com:

Thanks.
One of the worst poems I ever read. 
Almost as bad as Ashbery.
 
(that's sure to get somebody annoyed...)
(but it's true)



Well, as I already said, Arno Schmidt is untranslatable. Well, only very  few 
fans read him in W.-Germany after the war. In the fifties and sixties, after  
he moved several times, Arno Schmidt lived in a small village in Northern  
Germany (Bargfeld), where his wife was forced to collect chestnuts in the forest 
 for survival. In the mid-70th's, Reemstma gave him 500.000 Deutschmarks as a 
 gift. Schmidt died on a heart attack in 1979.    

kwp

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