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Angina Days: Selected Poems
Günter Eich
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Description for Angina Days: Selected Poems
Hardback. 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. Translator(s): Hofmann, Michael. Series: Facing Pages. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 165 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
This is the most comprehensive English translation of the work of Gunter Eich, one of the greatest postwar German poets. The author of the POW poem "Inventory," among one of the most famous lyrics in the German language, Eich was rivaled only by Paul Celan as the leading poet in the generation after Gottfried Benn and Bertolt Brecht. Expertly translated and introduced by Michael Hofmann, this collection gathers eighty poems, many drawn from Eich's later work and most of them translated here for the first time. The volume also includes the original German texts on facing pages. As an early ... Read more
This is the most comprehensive English translation of the work of Gunter Eich, one of the greatest postwar German poets. The author of the POW poem "Inventory," among one of the most famous lyrics in the German language, Eich was rivaled only by Paul Celan as the leading poet in the generation after Gottfried Benn and Bertolt Brecht. Expertly translated and introduced by Michael Hofmann, this collection gathers eighty poems, many drawn from Eich's later work and most of them translated here for the first time. The volume also includes the original German texts on facing pages. As an early ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Series
Facing Pages
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691144979
SKU
V9780691144979
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About Günter Eich
Michael Hofmann is an award-winning poet and translator. His "Selected Poems" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) appeared in 2009. His other books include the anthology "Twentieth-Century German Poetry" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) and the book of essays "Behind the Lines" (Faber & Faber). He has translated Durs Grunbein, Franz Kafka, Wolfgang Koeppen, and Joseph Roth, among many other writers. He teaches ... Read more
Reviews for Angina Days: Selected Poems
Winner of the 2012 Thornton Wilder Prize for Translation, American Academy of Arts and Letters Runner-Up for the 2011 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, PEN American Center Runner-Up for the The 2011 Schlegel-Tieck Prize (for German Translation), The Society of Authors "Angina Days, a crisp new selection translated by Michael Hofmann and published in Princeton's 'Facing Pages' series, is ... Read more