num_pages: 320
description: Born in Dresden in 1962, Durs Grünbein 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.
language: English
title: Ashes for Breakfast: Selected Poems
titlecomplete: Ashes for Breakfast: Selected Poems
genres: German Literature, Poetry, Germany
ratings_count: 89
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux