Jähnichen, Gisa (2024). First Blink. Poems and Short Stories Experienced in Countries Foreign to All of Us. Berlin: Logos. (original) (raw)

This small book is the result of offering support to for-mer students by writing emails to them and allowing them to have yet another feeling for being a student. Most of the poems and stories are rather judgmental and moralizing and use the language of academics. But the poems and stories are true and show in a lively manner how important these unpretentious exchanges were. The poems at presented at the beginning of the book deal with different topics and reflect changes in relationships and goals set by the younger students and the older teacher. The entire book is to be read in leisure times and is not intended to be analysed. The period of writing spans be-tween the years from 2016 to 2024. During this time, the teacher has changed the workplace and had to suddenly separate from former students. Working out the poems took often longer than writing the short stories. This is mentioned as a warning. Poems are neither simple in their construction nor easy to produce. However, this small book can be enjoyed by eve-ryone who is able to read.

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