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Rilke, Sachs, Brecht, Celan: German has produced some of the giants of 20th century European poetry. In this new selection, complete with many new translations, Michael Hofmann guides us through the poems, poets and themes of German verse. Meticulously researched but eminently approachable, The Faber Book of Twentieth Century German Poems is an essential new addition to any poetry bookshelf.
'Michael Hofmann has a skeptical intelligence, an observant eye, a compulsion to speak the unspeakable, and the useful wariness of the displaced person.' Helen Vendler, New York Review of Books
'It is probably impossible to produce poetry of this quality that is tuned more precisely to the timbre of the present than Michael Hofmann's. Rapture is the only adequate response.' Geoff Dyer, Guardian
About the Author
Michael Hofmann was born in 1957 in Freiburg, Germany, and came to England in 1961. He has published four volumes of poems and won a Cholmondeley Award adn the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for Poetry. His translations have won many awards, including the Independent's Foreign Fiction Award, teh IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the P.E.N./Book of the Month Club Translation Prize. His reviews and criticism are gathered in Behind the Lines (2001).
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There are some great poems in here, but if you're buying this as a study aid or to practice your German, think again -- the entire book has been translated into English! The blurb notes that there are "many new translations" but the German originals are not available alongside the English. Not what I was expecting at all.
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This collection has the works of fifty-four poets, but seems to work between the two points of Bertolt Brecht with 19 poems and Hans Magnus Enzensberger with 14 (including the 8 & a bit page poem, Foam) and although there are other books covering this ground for example, Michael Hamburger's and Christopher Middleton's Modern German Poetry from 1910-1960. As an introduction to a poetry that can hold it's head high on the world stage, this book will take some beating, No, It's not Bilingual, yes it would be probably improved if that was the case, but to most - myself included - that won't matter, what does matter is that this book will serve as a key to a door that can open up a whole world of poetry. Earlier this year I wrote a post on Faber's Book of 20Th Century Italian Poems and this will sit nicely alongside that one on my bookshelves.
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This collection has the works of fifty-four poets, but seems to work between the two points of Bertolt Brecht with 19 poems and Hans Magnus Enzensberger with 14 (including the 8 & a bit page poem, Foam) and although there are other books covering this ground for example, Michael Hamburger's and Christopher Middleton's Modern German Poetry from 1910-1960. As an introduction to a poetry that can hold it's head high on the world stage, this book will take some beating, No, It's not Bilingual, yes it would be probably improved if that was the case, but to most - myself included - that won't matter, what does matter is that this book will serve as a key to a door that can open up a whole world of poetry. Earlier this year I wrote a post on Faber's Book of 20Th Century Italian Poems and this will sit nicely alongside that one on my bookshelves.
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