Twentieth-century German poetry
Subtitle: an anthology
By: edited by Michael Hofmann
Contributors: Hofmann, Michael, 1957 Aug. 25-
Edition: 1st American ed
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 511
ISBN-13: 9780374105358
Subjects: German poetry -- 20th century -- Translations into English
Genres: Translations into English
Other titles: 20th century German poetry; Faber book of 20th century German poems
Description: "This groundbreaking anthology will serve as the standard for years to come. Michael Hofmann has assembled brilliant translations of the major German poets of the last century, from Rilke and Brecht to Durs Grunbein and Jan Wagner, in an approachable, readable, and endlessly interesting collection. Here we find poetry as a living counterforce to sociopolitical reality; poetry of dissent and fear and protest; poetry of private griefs and music. From the subtlety and elegance of Brecht, to the extraordinary "jargon-glooms" of Gottfried Bonn, to the oblique (and straightforward) responses to the country's villainous history, to the bitter, cleansed, and haunted poetry of the postwar years, this anthology illuminates the full span of twentieth-century German verse, ending with a reunified country looking at itself and its neighbors in new ways. This is an essential and timely collection of poems from a tumultuous, violent, tragic, and hopeful century, written in the language of those who were at the heart of the matter."--Jacket.
Notes: Originally published as The Faber Book of 20th-Century German Poems: London : Faber and Faber, 2005

Includes bibliographical references and index

English and German