Gerhard Falkner, born in 1951, is a poet, playwright, essayist and translator. The publication of his first volume of poetry, so beginnen am körper die tage (so begin the days along your body) received enormous critical acclaim, comparable only to the echoes after Grünbein’s appearance ten years later. The volume was followed by der atem unter der erde (the breath beneath the ground) 1984 and w...