Yutka

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Gender	Female
Location	Oxford
Introduction	I was born sixty years ago in a war-torn Germany. My grandfather, contemporary of the famous poet Rainer Maria Rilke whom he had actually met, had been a poet and translator. Unfortunately he died before I was born, but I think he left me through his genes this never ceasing love of poetry and a talent for languages. I have written poetry from early on, in German, later in Spanish and French and finally in English. I always thought of the poets I read as family, my own kin, who spoke a language I could understand and “feel” .I believe in reading out poems aloud and prefer simple vocabulary. What fascinates me are the possibilities to express feelings. What I respond to is the way a poem can liberate, by means of a word’s setting, through subtleties of timing, of pacing, that word’s full and surprising range of meaning. It seems to me that simple language best suits this; I like scale, but I like it invisible. I love those poems that seem so small on the page but that swell in the mind.
Interests	sculpture, painting, reading, poetry, cinema
Favorite Movies	Fanny and Alexander (Igmar Bergman)
Favorite Music	Haendel, Vivaldi, Mozart, Bach
Favorite Books	Passion by Jude Mordan

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