The Poetics of Sarah Kirsch: A Kaleidoscope Aesthetics

The work of Sarah Kirsch (1935-2013), long confined to her poetry collections alone, now deserves a comprehensive overview of all its facets.

This study therefore proposes to analyze Sarah Kirsch’s work through the lens of the kaleidoscope, used as both an analytical tool and a methodological principle, favoring intertextual and intercultural approaches.

The aim is to weave a framework around a number of motifs inherent to the collection *Allerlei-Rauh* (1988)—the focus of this study—and applicable to her entire oeuvre. Thus, behind the poems emerges an open body of work that, from travel writing to haiku and ecological concerns, revisits autobiographical writing and political engagement.

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