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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780923389062Author Ernst HalterFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Spuyten DuyvilPublisher Spuyten DuyvilWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692479681Author Maria Luise WeissmannFormat PaperbackImprint Cedar Springs BooksPublisher Cedar Springs BooksWeight(grams) 104g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618565894Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 205Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 143mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820407357Author David B DickensFormat HardbackPage Count 242Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 420g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820404875Author Boria SaxFormat HardbackPage Count 203Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 370g

Rainer Maria Rilke's work spans the divide between turn-of-the-century Europe's decadence and its post First World War revolutionary modernism, always struggling to develop, to seek and reach beyond itself. This selection of poems from throughout Rilke's...

Translated from the German by Jenny Williams. Introduced by Mary O'Donnell. THE FISHERMEN The fishermen sleep.In their sou'westers sea foam evaporates from their eyes the scales fall onto the pale bodies of the fish who dream that the fishermen sleep...

Lucid narratives of family dramas, global warming, and conversations with Death make a riveting new collection from this prize-winning poet. The poems swing between Mexico City, New York, a Staffordshire village and home, their engagement with the...

Ludwig Steinherr is one of the most compelling new voices to have emerged in Germany since the late 1980s and this selection - the first to appear in English - from his 10 poetry collections published between 1985 and 2005 reflects the breadth and depth...

An unexpected, exciting work from one of the most protean writers ever to win the Nobel Prize. To create the poems in this collection, Herta Muller cut up countless newspapers and magazines in search of striking phrases, words, or even fragments of...

Our twice-yearly daylight savings holiday, in which we faithfully, collectively adjust our clocks, is purely human tampering with the calendar. Yet it is a practice that is embedded in nature's principles, even as we exact more sunlight for ourselves in...

In these skillful new translations by poet Graham Foust and scholar Samuel Frederick, whose work has previously been shortlisted for the National Translation Award in Poetry, each line is gnomic yet ample, opening spaces of reflection on mortality and...

Beloved by contemporary German readers, the poetry of Max Sessner is gathered for the first time in English in Whoever Drowned Here: New and Selected Poems. Painstakingly chosen from Sessner's celebrated three collections and from new work, these poems...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787352889Author Mererid Puw DaviesFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787352896Author Mererid Puw DaviesFormat HardbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL Press

A new translation of Rilke's great work with close readings of each of the ten elegies elucidating how their poetic attributes constitute their meaning. Rilke continues to be the most read and discussed German poet of the modern period. The Duino...

When originally published in 1993, this was the first bibliography of the secondary literature on Tieck. Given as much secondary literature surrounding Tieck's life and works has been generated outside of his native Germany as within, this bibliography...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608010813Author Johann HolznerFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint University of New Orleans PressPublisher University of New Orleans PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998740041Author Danilo KisFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Autumn Hill BooksPublisher Autumn Hill BooksWeight(grams) 181g

Originally published in 1985, this book provides a full survey of the best and most significant work of German writers to the First World War. Including (in both German and English) the texts of all the main poems discussed, this book contains many not...

Rainer Brambach, one of the most widely appreciated Swiss poets in the 1950s and '60s, was notorious for walking to the beat of his own drum, denying convention and standing his ground against popular styles and trends. He grew up in Basel and left...

Andra Schwarz's probing, unpunctuated poems take us into her native Lusatia, a region in Eastern Germany near the Polish and Czech borders that has undergone drastic changes from coal mining, politics, and demographic shifts. Her work addresses loss,...

This important volume gathers work from Herman Hesse Prize winner, German-Language Swiss poet Klaus Merz's fifteen collections of poetry, from 1963-2016.This important volume gathers work from Herman Hesse Prize winner, German-Language Swiss poet Klaus...

Lutz Seiler grew up in the former East Germany and has lived most of his life outside Berlin. His poems, not surprisingly, are works of the border, the in-between, and the provincial, marked by whispers, weather, time's relentless passing, the dead and...

Known as a poet who spoke of the history and suffering of the Jewish people, Nelly Sachs was, at the time she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966, highly regarded in her native Germany, frequently being described as a poet of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374526412Author Hermann HesseFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

The second book in Seagull's ambitious series of Georg Trakl's works, Sebastian Dreaming was the second, and final, collection prepared for publication by Trakl himself. Published after his death, it was perhaps even tied to it: forced into a military...

North in the World presents 121 poems by Rolf Jacobsen (1907-1994), one of Norway's greatest modern poets. Garnering the highest praise of critics, Jacobsen won many of Norway's and Sweden's most prestigious literary awards, including the Swedish...

Else Lasker-Schuler (1869-1945) was born into an affluent German Jewish family. Following the death of her parents and the dissolution of her marriage, the fledgling poet became notorious in the fashionable cafes of Berlin for appearing in costume as a...

`a world without love would be no world' Elegy II This bilingual edition of Goethe's erotic poems contains the Roman Elegies (1789), The Diary (1810), and a selection from the Venetian Epigrams of 1790. Editorial censorship has long...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781962770248Author Christian LehnertFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher Archipelago Books