Ashes for Breakfast

Name: Ashes for Breakfast
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ISBN: 9780374530136

ISBN-10: 0374530130

ISBN-13: 9780374530136

Edition: 2006

Authors: Durs Grunbein, Michael Hofmann

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Born in Dresden in 1962, Durs Grünbein is the most significant and successful poet to emerge from the former East Germany, a place where, he wrote, "the best refuge was a closed mouth." In unsettling, often funny, sometimes savage lines whose vivid images reflect his deep love for and connection with the visual arts, Grunbein is reinventing German poetry and taking on the most pressing moral concerns of his generation. Brilliantly edited and translated by the English poet Michael Hofmann, Ashes for Breakfast expertly introduces Germany's most highly acclaimed contemporary poet to American readers.

Book details

List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 1/24/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



Translator's Preface


from Grauzone Morgens (1988) Mornings in the Grayzone


A Single Tin


Trilce, Cesar


No. 3


No. 8


All About You


No Fun


"Accept It!"


Reason to Be Temporarily in New York


Bathtubs


Untitled


Almost a Song


Bubbling Stream


Ole


MonoLogical Poem #1


MonoLogical Poem #2


MonoLogical Poem #4


MonoLogical Poem #5


MonoLogical Poem #13


Perpetuum Mobile


from Schadelbasislektion (1991) Skull Base Lesson


Portrait of the Artist as a Young Border Dog (not Collie)


from Falten und Fallen (1994) Folds and Traps


Variations on No Theme


To a Chimpanzee in the London Zoo


To an Okapi in the Munich Zoo


To a Penguin in the New York Aquarium


from Nach Den Satiren (1999) After the Satires


In the Provinces


Lament of a Legionnaire on Germanicus's Campaign to the Elbe River


The Misanthrope on Capri


Club of Rome


Titian's New Pad


To a Cheetah in the Moscow Zoo


Memorandum


Ashes for Breakfast: Thirteen Fantasies


Cosmopolite


Berlin Rounds


Greetings from Oblivion City


In Front of an Old X-Ray


Vita Brevis


Mantegna, Perhaps


Europe After the Last Rains


from Erklarte Nacht (2002) Configured Night


Berlin Posthumous


Arcadia for All


Notes