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Sauseschritt: A book of poetry that is a delirium unto itself
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 5 2025
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.39 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Poems & Prose by Martijn Benders
What if poetry could dance on a volcano's lip, howl beneath a black rainbow, or drag its broken heart through yoghurt and ash? Sauseschritt is a wildly inventive collection by Martijn Benders, one of Europe's most audacious literary voices. In these pages, poetry becomes a bloodhound, philosophy a form of theatre, and satire a scalpel carved from moonlight.
Spanning deathbed lullabies, spectral children, and postapocalyptic fairytales, Sauseschritt is a delirious ride through the absurd, the intimate, and the metaphysical. It fuses experimental lyricism with biting humour, cosmic grief with political grotesquerie. One poem imagines Remco Campert rescuing himself from a tub of water-again and again. Another gives voice to a sock that speaks, every night, in a crumpled whisper.
Here, Benders resurrects the surreal tradition of Daniil Kharms and Gellu Naum, while infusing it with a 21st-century urgency all his own. From whispered elegies to explosive invectives, his language leaps and stings-flashes of radioactive tenderness amid a fractured world.
If you love poetry that risks everything, prose that mutates into myth, and writing that refuses to fit any mould, Sauseschritt is the book you didn't know you were waiting for.
Includes:
- Dozens of original poems in English
- Absurdist microfictions and poetic essays
- A posthumous visit from Maria, Unraveller of Knots
- A prayer to the Ice Butterfly
- And the heartbreak of yoghurt in three acts
Warning: May cause unexpected revelations, minor hauntings, or spontaneous laughter.
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