num_pages: 96
description: Few American readers seem to be aware that Hermann Hesse, author of the epic novels Steppenwolf and Siddhartha , among many others, also wrote poetry, the best of which the poet James Wright has translated and included in this book. This is a special volume―filled with short, direct poems about love, death, loneliness, the seasons―that is imbued with some of the imagery and feeling of Hesse's novels but that has a clarity and resonance all its own, a sense of longing for love and for home that is both deceptively simple and deeply moving.
language: German
title: Poems
titlecomplete: Poems (English and German Edition)
genres: Fiction, Poetry, German Literature, Literature, Classics, Nobel Prize, Germany
ratings_count: 897
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux