Prairie flowers
Subtitle: a collection of songs and poems in our Luxembourg German langauge
By: Nicolas Gonner, ed. ; English translation and commentary by Sandra Schmit
Contributors: Becker, Nicolas Edouard, 1842-1920; Nau, Jean-Baptiste, 1859-1891
Series: Lëtzebuerger Bibliothéik -- no. 21; Lëtzebuerger B\ibliothéik -- 21
Publisher: Centre National de Littérature
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Mersch
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9782919903306
Subjects: German Dialect poetry
Work titles: Prairieblummen English
Description: In 1883, the newspaper editor Nicolas Gonner publishes sixty-two Luxembourgish poems in his publishing house in Dubuque, Iowa. In this work, he presents three authors from his home country: Jean-Baptiste Nau, who lived only for a short time in Detroit before heading back to his family home in Tétange, in the south of Luxembourg; Nicolas Edouard Becker, who emigrated with his parents to Wisconsin when he was eleven years old and spent the rest of his life as a farmer, school teacher, writer and politician among his Luxembourg American compatriots; and finally Nicolas Gonner himself, best known for his history of the Luxembourgish emigration to North America, "The Luxembourgers in the New World". As stated in the first poem, Prairie Flowers was meant as a present from the authors to their friends back in Europe.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-224).