For Franco Beltrametti: From Almost Everywhere: Selected Poems 1965 - 1995
Brought up in Schwetzingen, in the Rhine Valley, Hyner experienced the “anthropological change” (Nanni Balestrini) some people went through growing up in the ’70s in the West when the utopia became reality in some “institutions” for a short time. After an apprenticeship as a cabinet maker he studied Chinese and East Asian Art History at Heidelberg University.
Hyner’s books include 10,000 Journeys: Selected Poems, Here Before Again and Instead of a Bullet. He edited Home Among the Swinging Stars: Collected Poems of Jaime de Angulo and Franco Beltrametti’s From Almost Everywhere: Selected Poems 1965 – 1995 and has translated a number of American poets’ work to German. Hyner’s work has been translated into English, Italian, French, Swedish and Chinese.