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Rainer Brambach (19171983) grew up in Basel and left school at the age of 14 to become a manual labourer. He spent much of the Second World War in prison and labour camps, an experience which greatly influenced his writing. Recognition and awards notwithstanding, he remained an outsider in the literary world and lived for many years in poverty
Collected Poems comes to us as the first volume in translation to fully present this worthy poet to an English-speaking audience. While largely forgotten on the international scene today, in Switzerland Brambach remains an important literary figure much admired for his often melancholic, always insightful little poems that present the bucolic landscapes of his adopted country in disquieting light. Concise they may be, but they leave room on the page for the mind to linger in contemplation. -- Rain Taxi
