Psyche running : selected poems, 2005-2022 /
Born in Dresden in 1962, Durs Gr|nbein is the most significant and successful poet of his generation in Germany. Since 1988, when the then-twenty-five-year-old burst onto the scene with his poetry collection Grauzone morgens, a mordant reckoning with the East Germany he grew up in, Gr|nbein has publ...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translated from the German. |
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London ; New York :
Seagull Books,
[2023].
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| Series: | German list.
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| Summary: | Born in Dresden in 1962, Durs Gr|nbein is the most significant and successful poet of his generation in Germany. Since 1988, when the then-twenty-five-year-old burst onto the scene with his poetry collection Grauzone morgens, a mordant reckoning with the East Germany he grew up in, Gr|nbein has published more than thirty books of poetry and prose, which have been translated into dozens of languages. In 2005, the volume Ashes for Breakfast introduced Gr|nbein to English-language readers for the first time by sampling poetry from his first four collections. Psyche Running picks up where that volume left off and offers a selection of poems from his nine subsequent collections, which shows how Gr|nbein has developed from his ironic take on the classical into an elegiac exploration of history through dream fragments and poems with a haunting existential unease. |
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| Physical Description: | xxvi, 186 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781803092799 1803092793 |