Poetry and Exile
Subtitle: Letters from New Zealand, 1938-1948
Publisher: Cold Hub Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780473410506
Subjects: Poets, correspondence; Authors, german; Jewish authors; New zealand, history
Description: German-Jewish poet Karl Wolfskehl spent the last years of his life, from 1938 to 1948, in Auckland, New Zealand, 'on the globe's last island reef', as a refugee from Nazi Germany. The conditions of his life forced him to consider the very nature of human existence, and his letters from New Zealand, many to friends and associates exiled around the globe, amount to an intellectual autobiography.