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Zoë Hitzig (ZH) with high hopes and her wonderful husband near ZH Zürich/Switzerland on a thinktank seminary starting a New College of Life: meeting a highly sensitive poet with a distinct sense of humor – 2026.
By chance I was allowed to read one poem about the programmed apocalypse … which reminds me of Friedrich Nietzsche’s „Die Wüste wächst“ and instantly makes me curious to read more lyrics from this elaborated code of words and sentences like finely honed knife blades.
Thank audible the whole „Mezzanine“ was available, read by ZH in a sensitive voice like Ingeborg Bachmann.
While listening to the first texts awareness was sharpened coping with the subtle perceptions of things, objects relating to often somewhat enigmatic items and issues. It does take a bit of courage for the listener to move on to the next poem, but the stylised facts inexorably draw you in.
ZH with her own sounds of silence avoiding noise with a voice half-shy half-assertive points out in her own rhyme and rhythm the micro and macrocosmos of our torrid planet in peril.
In Mezzanine, through a sophisticated, erudite and meticulous synthesis of key insights from geology, ecology, economics, medicine and politics – drawing on both history and the present day – she weaves tapestries of words that form a ‘totally new aubade’.
From the matter-of-fact “rather rocks than books” geologist James Hutton of Edinburgh, via Milton Friedman‘ stone money and Stephen Hawking’s glimpse into the universe – which, incidentally, seems to care little for us – listeners attention wanders to the “space between my eyes” in the atlas of human gestures, right through to the personal dedication of a poem to a close friend, a “fallen nation’s hockey hero”, in a hospital bed. The convivium with crickets and Lotus blossoms and the fading away of nature due to Kerosin per month consumption and plastic and styrofoam overproduction from cradle to coffin including the warmachinery the zombies under the sky „which never asks“ are listed in anamorphic memories. Always appreciating real human conditions, e.g. the person in the death row.
ZH is given a concise insight in the complex background of most of her poems in the annex which really helps the listener to specialized sources of her let’s say „scientific poetry“ (e.g. her look in the controversial Pernkopf Atlas from 1933).
The final quote of the biblical Psalm 142,4 KJV marks the prayer of the cornered David who ask for the helping hand to survive all hostility and persecution – „we are like jewels…with a hole in the center…“ and an universe in the heart.
Guess, a listener of the extraordinary Audible recording requires the printed version of „Mezzanine“ in his library in his roof-top suite or in a cellar, too.