Friederike Mayröcker (1924-) is a major, established, prize-winning Austrian poet, considered as one of the most important of her country's contemporary poets.

She herself describes her work thus: "I live in pictures. I see everything in pictures, my complete past, memories are pictures. I transform pictures into language by climbing into the picture. I walk into it until it becomes language."

I shall be on the lookout for this new (to me) and incredibly interesting poet; meanwhile, has anybody here read her before, and what would you recommend? Anything available in English? I know she's been translated into Russian, so I could, potentially, look her up in that language (since I don't read German in any of its varieties, ).

In addition to poetry, she has also written countless plays and radio-plays and is considered an important dramatist as well.

I am shocked that I haven't ever heard of her before; how is it possible, that the likes of Handke and Jelinek have managed to elbow her out of the picture?