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At night, beneath trees : selected poems / Michael Krüger ; translated by Richard Dove.
Van Pelt Library PT2671.R736 A23 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Krüger, Michael, 1943-
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Krüger, Michael, 1943---Translations into English.
- Krüger, Michael.
- Krüger, Michael, 1943-.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 90 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : G. Braziller, 1998.
- Summary:
- A new collection of poems by the German poet Michael Kruger, At Night, beneath Trees is his second volume of poetry to appear in English. This latest selection, drawn from his 1993 and 1996 collections, marks an important shift in his work; moving away from the deeply philosophical dialogues of his earlier work, Kruger engages here in reflective, lyrical musings on the meaning of existence.
- Kruger searches for truth in the most ordinary of everyday events. Letters written to friends, a few moments spent looking up at the trees, statements by a television commentator all become occasions for questioning the meaning of things. Pervaded by a peaceful stillness, yet resoundingly powerful, these poems speak of the fear and confusion of living in a chaotic, meaningless world.
- Contents:
- Guided Tour
- Little German National Anthem
- The Parrot
- Carbon Paper
- Advice
- Letter
- Service Station
- Two Men on a Park Bench
- I Am Weary
- When the Weather Is Fine
- Taking a Rest
- Afternoon
- Commemorative Sheet for Gunter Eich
- In the Summertime
- PS
- Letter to a Child
- Letter to Dan Pagis
- Letter Home
- Returning to an Empty House
- The Day After
- In Conversation
- A House
- To Be Continued
- The Bed
- Looking Out into the Garden
- Mailshot
- Wind
- The Painter's Allocution
- The Museum Attendant's Allocution
- The Old Woman's Allocution
- The Fool's Allocution
- The Translator's Allocution
- Petrarch's Allocution on Descending Mont Ventoux
- The Mailman's Allocution
- The Allocution of the Despairing
- January 13, '95
- 1995/2/1
- February '95
- Draft of a Nature Poem
- Postcard from Budapest, April '95
- Summer '95
- Little Scene
- At Night, beneath Trees
- Photo Album
- Note for the Files
- Notes:
- Poems from "Nach Hause" published in 1993 and "Nachts, unter Bäumen" published in 1996.
- ISBN:
- 0807614319
- 9780807614310
- OCLC:
- 37935080
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