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Angina Days : Selected Poems.
Title:
Angina Days : Selected Poems.
Author:
Eich, Günter.
ISBN:
9781400834341
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (193 pages)
Series:
Facing Pages
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- German -- from Abgelegene Gehöfte -- Abgelegene Gehöfte -- Pfannkuchenrezept -- Camp 16 -- Inventur -- Erster Januar -- from Botschaften des Regens -- Ende eines Sommers -- Gegenwart -- D-Zug München-Frankfurt -- Kleine Reparatur -- Weg zum Bahnhof -- Lemberg -- Andenken -- Wo ich wohne -- Reise -- Mittags um zwei -- Betrachtet die Fingerspitzen -- Briefstelle -- Einsicht -- Ende August -- from Zu den Akten -- Alte Postkarten -- Neue Postkarten -- Bericht aus einem Kurort -- Nachhut -- Rest -- Alte Holländer -- Brüder Grimm -- Zu spät für Bescheidenheit -- Bestellung -- Tragtasche -- Ohne Unterschrift -- Jaques Devant, für Viele -- Aufgelassenes Zollamt -- Aussicht vom Spezial-Keller -- Zunahme -- Auskünfte aus dem Nachlass -- Ungültige Landkarte -- Topographie einer schöneren Welt -- Fussnote zu Rom -- from Anlässe und Steingärten -- Timetable -- Berlin 1918 -- Kinder-und Hausmärchen -- Rauchbier -- Alte Postkarten -- Neue Postkarten -- Weitgereist -- Fortschritt -- Halb -- Satzzeichen -- Zwei -- Bett hüten -- Schluss eines Kriminalromans -- Armer Sonntag -- Verspätung -- Lange Gedichte -- Nach Seumes Papieren -- Nördlicher Seufzer -- Stadtrand -- Philologisch -- Nach dem Ende der Biographie -- Optik -- Namen -- Steuererklärung -- Augsburg -- Nach Seumes Papieren -- Später -- from Uncollected Poems and Poems from Radio Plays -- Der Regen in Eltville -- Pläne -- Vorwinter -- Alter Dezember -- Nomaden -- Freund und Horazleser -- aus: Träume -- Händel -- Napoleon denkt an Josephine -- Lange Gedichte -- Die vorige Woche -- Und -- Landgasthof -- Klinikfarben -- Vom Glück -- English -- Remote Smallholdings (1948) -- Remote Smallholdings -- Recipe for Pancakes -- Camp 16 -- Inventory -- First of January -- Messages from the Rain (1955) -- End of Summer -- The Present.

Munich-Frankfurt Express -- Minor Repair -- Way to the Station -- Lvov -- Memorial -- Where I Live -- Journey -- Two in the Aft ernoon -- Examine Your Fingertips -- From a Letter -- Understanding -- End of August -- Ad Acta (1964) -- Old Postcards -- New Postcards -- Report from a Spa -- Rearguard -- Remnant -- Old Dutch Masters -- Brothers Grimm -- Too Late for Modesty -- Order -- Holdall -- Unsigned -- Jaques Devant, for the Many -- Old Customshouse -- Perspective from the Spezial-Keller -- Increase -- Tips from the Posthumous Papers -- Fraudulent Map -- Topography of a Better World -- Roman Footnote -- Occasions and Rock Gardens (1966) -- Timetable -- Berlin, 1918 -- Fairy Tales -- Rauchbier -- Old Postcards -- New Postcards -- Traveling Far -- Progress -- Half -- Punctuation Marks -- Two -- Confined to Bed -- The End of the Thriller -- Poor Sunday -- Delayed -- Long Poems -- From Seume's Papers (1972) -- Northern Sigh -- Edge of Town -- Philological -- After Setting Down the Biography -- Optics -- Names -- Tax Declaration -- Augsburg -- From Seume's Papers -- Later -- from Uncollected Poems and Poems from Radio Plays -- The Rain in Eltville -- Plans -- Early Winter -- Old December -- Nomads -- Friend and Reader of Horace -- from: Dreams -- Handel -- Napoleon Remembers Josephine -- Long Poems -- Last Week -- And -- Rustic Hotel -- Hospital Colors -- Of Happiness.
Abstract:
This is the most comprehensive English translation of the work of Günter 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 member of "Gruppe 47" (from which Günter Grass and Heinrich Böll later shot to prominence), Eich (1907-72) was at the vanguard of an effort to restore German as a language for poetry after the vitriol, propaganda, and lies of the Third Reich. Short and clear, these are timeless poems in which the ominousness of fairy tales meets the delicacy and suggestiveness of Far Eastern poetry. In his late poems, he writes frequently, movingly, and often wryly of infirmity and illness. "To my mind," Hofmann writes, "there's something in Eich of Paul Klee's pictures: both are homemade, modest in scale, immediately delightful, inventive, cogent." Unjustly neglected in English, Eich finds his ideal translator here.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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