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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Preface | |
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| Early Poems (1940-1943) | |
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| Der Tote / The Dead Man | |
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| Finsternis / Darkness | |
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| Notturno / Nocturne | |
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| [Winter] / [Winter] | |
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| Nahe der Graber / Nearness of Graves | |
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| Der Einsame / The Lonely One | |
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| Schwarze Flocken / Black Flakes | |
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| Mohn und Gedachtnis (1952) Poppy and Memory | |
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| Ein Lied in der Wuste / A Song in the Wilderness | |
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| Espenbaum / Aspen Tree | |
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| Der Sand aus den Urnen / The Sand from the Urns | |
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| Lob der Ferne / Praise of Distance | |
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| Spat und Tief / Late and Deep | |
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| Corona / Corona | |
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| Todesfuge / Deathfugue | |
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| Auf Reisen / On a Journey | |
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| In Agypten / In Egypt | |
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| Kristall / Crystal | |
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| Die Kruge / The Tankards | |
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| So bist du denn geworden / So you are turned | |
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| Der Reisekamerad / The Travel Companion | |
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| Landschaft / Landscape | |
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| Zahle die Mandeln / Count up the almonds | |
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| Von Schwelle Zu Schwelle (1955) from Threshold to Threshold | |
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| Ich Horte Sagen / I Heard It Said | |
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| Zu Zweien / By Twos | |
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| Grabschrift fur Francois / Epitaph for Francois | |
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| Assisi / Assisi | |
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| Vor einer Kerze / In Front of a Candle | |
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| Mit Wechselndem Schlussel / With a Changing Key | |
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| Andenken / Remembrance | |
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| Nachtlich Geschurzt / Nocturnally Pursed | |
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| Welchen der Steine Du Hebst / Whichever Stone You Lift | |
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| In Memoriam Paul Eluard / In Memoriam Paul Eluard | |
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| Schibboleth / Shibboleth | |
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| Sprich Auch Du / Speak You Too | |
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| Argumentum e Silentio / Argumentum e Silentio | |
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| Die Winzer / The Vintagers | |
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| Inselhin / Islandward | |
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| Sprachgitter (1959) Speech-Grille | |
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| Stimmen / Voices | |
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| Zuversicht / Confidence | |
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| Mit Brief und Uhr / With Letter and Clock | |
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| Unter ein Bild / Below a Painting | |
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| Schliere / Streak | |
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| Tenebrae / Tenebrae | |
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| Blume / Flower | |
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| Sprachgitter / Speech-Grille | |
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| Matiere de Bretagne / Matiere de Bretagne | |
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| Koln, am Hof / Cologne, at the Station | |
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| In die Ferne / Into the Distance | |
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| Entwurf einer Landschaft / Sketch of a Landscape | |
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| Ein Auge, Offen / An Eye, Open | |
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| Engfuhrung / Stretto | |
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| Die Niemandsrose (1963) the No-One's-Rose | |
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| Es war Erde in ihnen / There was earth inside them | |
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| Das Wort vom Zur-Tiefe-Gehn / The word about going-to-the-depths | |
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| Bei Wein und Verlorenheit / With wine and lostness | |
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| Zurich, Zum Storchen / Zurich, at the Stork | |
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| Selbdritt, Selbviert / By Threes, by Fours | |
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| Dein Hinubersein / Your being over there | |
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| Zwolf Jahre / Twelve Years | |
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| Mit allen Gedanken / With all my thoughts | |
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| Die Schleuse / The Sluice | |
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| Stumme Herbstgeruche / Mute autumn smells | |
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| Eis, Eden / Ice, Eden | |
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| Psalm / Psalm | |
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| Tubingen, Janner / Tubingen, January | |
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| Eine Gauner- und Ganovenweise / A Rogues' and Gonifs' Ditty | |
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| ... Rauscht der Brunnen / ... The Wellspring Rushes | |
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| Radix, Matrix / Radix, Matrix | |
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| Einem, der vor der Tur stand / To one who stood before the door | |
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| Mandorla / Mandorla | |
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| Benedicta / Benedicta | |
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| Die hellen Steine / The bright stones | |
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| Ein Wurfholz / A boomerang | |
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| Hawdalah / Havdalah | |
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| Nachmittag mit Zirkus und Zitadelle / Afternoon with Circus and Citadel | |
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| Ich habe Bambus geschnitten / I have cut bamboo | |
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| Was geschah? / What happened? | |
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| In Eins / In One | |
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| Hinausgekront / Crowned out | |
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| Wohin mir / Where the word | |
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| Huttenfenster / Tabernacle Window | |
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| Die Silbe Schmerz / The Syllable Pain | |
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| Es ist alles anders / It's all different | |
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| In der Luft / In the air | |
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| Atemwende (1967) Breathturn | |
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| Du darfst / You may | |
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| In die Rillen / Into the grooves | |
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| In den Flussen / In rivers | |
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| Die Zahlen / The numbers | |
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| Weissgrau / Whitegray | |
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| Mit erdwarts gesungenen Masten / With masts sung earthward | |
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| Schlafenzange / Temple-pincers | |
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| Stehen / To stand | |
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| Mit den Verfolgten / With the persecuted | |
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| Fadensonnen / Threadsuns | |
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| Im Schlangenwagen / In the reptile-car | |
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| Ich kenne dich / I know you | |
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| Weggebeizt / Etched away | |
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| Vom grossen / Scooped | |
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| Keine Sandkunst mehr / No more sand art | |
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| Hohles Lebensgehoft / Hollow homestead of life | |
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| Schwarz / Black | |
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| Landschaft / Landscape | |
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| In Prag / In Prague | |
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| Aschenglorie / Ash-aureole | |
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| Das Geschriebene / What's written | |
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| Wo? / Where? | |
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| Konigswut / King's rage | |
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| Solve / Solve | |
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| Coagula / Coagula | |
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| Osterqualm / Paschal smoke | |
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| Schaufaden, Sinnfaden / Show-fringes, sense-fringes | |
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| Ein Drohnen / A rumbling | |
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| Schlickende / Oozing | |
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| Einmal / Once | |
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| Fadensonnen (1968) Threadsuns | |
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| Frankfurt, September / Frankfurt, September | |
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| Die Spur eines Bisses / The trace of a bite | |
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| All deine Siegel erbrochen? Nie. / All your seals broken? Never | |
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| Schlafbrocken / Sleepscraps | |
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| Die fleissigen / Industrious | |
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| Wenn ich nicht weiss, nicht weiss / When I don't know, don't know | |
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| Du warst / You were | |
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| Tau / Dew | |
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| Uppige Durchsage / Profuse announcement | |
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| Nah, im Aortenbogen / Near, in the aorta's arch | |
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| Weil du den Notscherben fandst / Because you found the trouble-shard | |
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| Denk Dir / Just Think | |
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| Lichtzwang (1970) Light-Compulsion | |
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| Horreste, Sehreste / Remnants of hearing, of seeing | |
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| Wir lagen / We lay | |
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| Todtnauberg / Todtnauberg | |
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| Klopf / Knock | |
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| Fahlstimmig / Wan-voiced | |
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| Schaltjahrhunderte / Leap-centuries | |
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| Du sei wie du / You be like you | |
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| Wirk nicht voraus / Do not work ahead | |
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| Schneepart (1971) Snow-Part | |
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| Du liegst / You lie | |
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| Das angebrochene Jahr / The broached year | |
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| Unlesbarkeit / Illegible | |
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| Ich hore, die Axt hat gebluht / I hear, the axe has flowered | |
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| Die nachzustotternde Welt / World to be stuttered after | |
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| Zur Nachtordnung / To night's order | |
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| Fur Eric / For Eric | |
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| Ein Blatt / A leaf | |
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| Einkanter / In-edger | |
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| Leuchtstabe / Flashlights | |
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| Zeitgehoft (1976) Homestead of Time | |
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| Wanderstaude / Wanderbush | |
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| Mandelnde / Almonding one | |
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| Es stand / There stood | |
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| Die Glut / The heat | |
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| Das Leuchten / That shining | |
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| Die Posaunenstelle / The shofar place | |
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| Die Pole / The poles | |
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| Der Konigsweg / The king's way | |
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| Ich trink Wein / I drink wine | |
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| Es wird / There will | |
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| Das Nichts / Nothingness | |
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| Umlichtet / Clearlit | |
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| Krokus / Crocus | |
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| Rebleute / Vinegrowers | |
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| Uncollected Poems | |
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| Wolfsbohne / Wolfsbean | |
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| Full die Odnis / Pour the wasteland | |
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| Schreib dich nicht / Don't write yourself | |
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| Gedichtzu, gedichtauf / Poem-closed, poem-open | |
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| Prose | |
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| Ansprache anlasslich der Entgegennahme des Literaturpreises der Freien Hansestadt Bremen (1958) / Speech on the Occasion of Receiving the Literature Prize of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen | |
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| Gesprach im Gebirg (1960) / Conversation in the Mountains | |
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| Der Meridian. Rede anlasslich der Verleihung des Georg-Buchner-Preise (1961) / The Meridian. Speech on the Occasion of the Award of the Georg Buchner Prize | |
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| Ansprache vor dem hebraischen Schriftstellerverband (1970) / Speech to the Hebrew Writers Association | |
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| Notes | |
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| English Index of Titles and First Lines | |
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| German Index of Titles and First Lines | |