I'm going to fight mother

Astrid H. Roemer

Astrid H. Roemer's poetic oeuvre is not large, but it is exciting, interesting, topical and provocative and, fortunately, cannot be pigeonholed. You could compile ten different anthologies of Astrid H. Roemer's poetry. I'm going to fight mother, however, shows the development of the young activist poet into the diva who manages to enchant the reader in exciting narrative images. The constant transformation in Astrid H. Roemer's poetry finds its provisional completion in her latest collection from 2012. Sentences are recognizable, but the boundary between one and the other is fluid.

This anthology collects poems by Astrid H. Roemer from her first collection from 1970 to her most recent poetry publications in literary magazines from 2015 to 2020. Her early poetry has a somewhat modest place and the later poetry is given more space. This shows the growth from a poet with a direct and personally charged expressive voice to an intriguing epic storyteller who creates his own world. A poet who shapes her thoughts and emotions, takes action, expresses her solidarity, but above all loves existence.