Facing Pages
Selected Poems
Facing Pages
Selected Poems
"Of the three postwar writers whose work seems most clearly to answer to Adorno's sense that no poetry can be written after the Holocaust, it is Eich (Beckett and Celan are the others) whose refusal of rhetoric is most thorough, with the result that the speaker--the authorial presence--whoever it is who would have persuaded, blamed, or badgered us, seems to have vanished into thin air, leaving nothing to come between ourselves and the pure experience offered by the poems."--Belle Randall, poetry editor, "Common Knowledge""This is an extremely important book.
Het is niet bekend of deze titel leverbaar is.
Gunter Eich was one of the greatest postwar German poets. This title offers a collection of Eich's eighty poems, in which the ominousness of fairy tales meets the delicacy and suggestiveness of Far Eastern poetry.
