Stan Lafleur - Neue Heimat

New lyrics from Stan Lafleur who lives in Cologne/Germany. 80 pages. In german.
ISBN 3-937846-01-8

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Stan Lafleur - Neue Heimat

"Neue Heimat" for the first time allows a representative general overview over Stand Lafleurs lyrical oevre from the last years after a series of smaller editions and publications. Lafleur prefers to deal with the outskirts of the poetical map, topics like fight-dogs or football, but as well the reanimation of a de-idyllised poetry about the Rheinland stand for a very individual poetic approach, concious of the poetic lineage, at the same time being aware of pop- and boulevard-culture, the very "NOW", that it criticizes and wrangles with and sometimes as well celebrates. Being trashy and brutal in moments, but never without irony, his poetry stands for a social-realistic awareness in its uttermost sense, giving an insight into the new german slums.

"Makes the love of the poet fail in a rolemodel style dealing with a profan greasy Döner." "(...) The ones who want to get comfy with the "Rheinländer poetry" will end up in poison ivory: the country of dwarfes in the frontyard and fight-dogs, the covered up guilt and tv neurosises is exactly not idyllic here." (Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger)

Stan Lafleur was born in 1968 in Karlsruhe, Germany and lives and works in cologne at the moment. Author and Spoken Word performer. Collaborations with various musicians (MC, LP, CD and radioplays). Various solotitles, the latest: "laszt uns alle voll so in die gegend gucken", edition roadhouse, Hannover 2003

Published by KRASH Neue Edition, Stahl-Verlag, Köln, 2004 80 pages, ca. 11x18cm ISBN 3-937846-01-8

Stan in his own words: for the first time, this 80 page book contains a representative collection of my poems from the last years, among them many, that are only known from my performances (that never or hardly ever got printed in magazines or anthologies) but as well brandnew material. In six chapters, the fields of topics vary from punky-trashy studies of society, texts about football and fight-dogs, not very idyllic poems about the Rhein(land) and lyrical montages based on diaries-excerpts by the Cologne poet Rolf Brinkmann, (who died some decade ago).
Stan Lafleur