Poetry. Oswald Egger, born in Lana, Italy in 1963, is one of the prominent experimental poets of the German language. In 1999 he won the Mondsee Poetry Award and the year after the Brentano Award. He organized the international poetry festival "Kulturtage Lana" and was editor of the German literature magazine "Der Prokurist." He has been a frequent visitor to the United States, most recently in 2000 as an Artist-in-Residence of the Chinati Foundation (Texas) and in 2001 as the Writer in Residence at the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles. Some of his work includes Die Erde der Rede (1993), Gleich und Gleich (1995), Juli, September, August (1997), Observatory Deck (1997), Sommern (1998), Herde der Rede (1999), To Observe The Obverse (2000).