By Michael / Young, Christopher / Leeder, Karen Eskin
Durs Grünbein is the main major poet writing in Germany this day. No different sleek German poet has written from such an emphatically eu viewpoint, and this quantity seeks to introduce him to the English-speaking global. Written by means of a line-up of foreign students, the quantity provides hugely readable and wide-ranging essays on Grünbein’s massive œuvre, complemented via in particular commissioned fabric and an interview with the poet. It covers the German and eu traditions, reminiscence and cityscapes, the average sciences, demise, love, the visible arts, and presence.
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