Ann Cotten Book order

The book features 99 individual images from 99 Austrian filmmakers since 1945, presenting a unique interplay of history and storytelling. Each image is accompanied by descriptions from 100 international writers and critics, offering insights from various fields such as film theory and science. This Lese- und Bildbuch invites readers to explore the concept of capturing cinematic time, blending visual art with literary interpretation.

After the delicate first concept album I ; Coleoptile (2010) ; Ann Cotten now comes out with a full-fledged book of English poetry and prose. Lather in Heaven assembles her work in English up to date ; as well as some selected translations from the German. English ; however ; is a wide field. The author ; who is known for stretching the limits of German expression writes in an English informed more by several global variants of pidgin than by universities or writing schools. If it sounds like Shakespeare ; it also sounds like slips from Chinese fortune cookies.

Ann Cotton has written her first comprehensive collection of poems in English for which she also collaborated with the Austrian artist Kerstin Cmelka. The end result is a beautifully crafted book in which poems on the theme of 'emergence' are alternated with black and white photos that evoke scenes from the popular 1918 Soviet film The Lady and the Hooligan. Cotten plays multiple registers at once: from philosophical-symbolic and mystical, to the contemporary reality of the Internet and pop songs. No genuine human feeling is passed over in the process.