Ballad of the Buried Life
Contributors: Salinger, Herman
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 1962
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Number of pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9781469658285
Subjects: Poetry
Description: A news item concerning six German soldiers trapped for years in the army food storage bunker provided Rudolf Hagelstange with a plot and an effective symbol to express the tensions, emotions, and paradoxes of modern man's being. In this volume the poet Herman Salinger translates Hagelstange's poem into verse with the original German on facing pages. An introductory essay by Charles W. Hoffmann gives context on Hagelstange and the ballad.
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