Ashes for breakfast : selected poems / Durs Grünbein ; translated by Michael Hofmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grünbein, Durs.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Hofmann, Michael, 1957 August 25-

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections. English & German

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Grünbein, Durs--Translations into English.

Grünbein, Durs.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvii, 298 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.

Language Note:

English and German.

Summary:

The first English translation of Germany's leading contemporary poet. ...what is the whole surreal jokeshop of terrors compared to the infinitely chance little tricks of a poem. --from "MonoLogical Poem #1" Born in Dresden in 1962, Durs Grunbein is the most significant and successful poet to emerge from the former East Germany, a place where, he wrote, "the best refuge was a closed mouth." In unsettling, often funny, sometimes savage lines whose vivid images reflect his deep love for and connection with the visual arts, Grunbein is reinventing German poetry and taking on the most pressing moral concerns of his generation. Brilliantly edited and translated by the English poet Michael Hofmann, "Ashes for Breakfast "expertly introduces Germany's most highly acclaimed contemporary poet to American readers.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0374260745

OCLC:

55535066

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