Kligerman (U. of Florida) explores four modes of representation in their relation to the trauma of the Holocaust, pivoting on the poetics of Celan and the ripple effect they have had on the visual art
The year 1999 saw the 250th anniversary of the birth of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany's greatest writer. Appropriately, literary scholars within Germany and beyond paid tribute to this remarkabl
About 200 examples are known of the genre maren, short verse German narratives with erotic, didactic, or moral contents, mostly written between 1250 and 1500. Classen has selected and translated 20 of
The great German poet regarded these meditations on love, death, God, and life's meaning as his greatest achievement. Innovative and enigmatic, the enduringly popular elegies express Rilke's longing f
Goethe has long been enshrined as the greatest German poet, but his admirers have always been uneasy with the idea that he did not produce a great epic poem. A master in all the other genres and mode
Barbara Newman captures the fervent eroticism of Frauenlob's language. More than the mother of Jesus, the Lady of Frauenlob's text is a celestial goddess, the eternal partner of the Trinity. Like Chri
A recent upsurge in interest in Der Struwwelpeter, written by Heinrich Hoffman, has initiated a new wave of spin-offs, parodies, and retellings of these immensely popular stories. Hoffman's style, whi
Responding to a renewed interest in Hoffman's casually violent, cautionary tales, Chalou (education, U. of Maine Presque Isle) considers the socio-historic context in which the book was written and ma
Friedrich von Hardenberg, who later became known as the poet Novalis, kept a journal between April and July 1797 that captured his moods, thoughts, and observations following the death of his fifteen
A four-volume collection of spiritual poetry by Frithjof Schuon, who wrote approximately 3,500 poems in his mother tongue German. These poems express the experience of the sacred through the medium of
A four-volume collection of spiritual poetry by Frithjof Schuon, who wrote approximately 3,500 poems in his mother tongue German. These poems express the experience of the sacred through the medium of
A four-volume collection of spiritual poetry by Frithjof Schuon who wrote approximately 3,500 poems in his mother tongue German. These poems express our experience of the sacred through the medium of
It is no coincidence that most of the artists at the vanguard of early 20th-century modernist art were poets as well as painters. Paul Klee (1879-1940) was among them. Known today almost exclusively
They are nine women with much in common--all German speaking, all poets, all personal witnesses to the horror and devastation that was World War II. Yet, in this deeply moving collection, each provide
The Last Living Words consists of works of poetry and fiction published during the life of the great Austrian writer. Brilliantly translated by Lilian Friedberg (winner of the Kayden Translation Award) presents a new perspective on this important, internationally renowned figure. Friedberg’s Bachmann is no longer the frail and tortured writer presented in so many previous translations, but she stands as a woman and writer.
Darkness Spoken gathers together Ingeborg Bachmann’s two celebrated books of poetry, as well as early and late poems not collected in book form, over 100 of them appearing in English for the first tim
Paul Celan has long been regarded as the most important European poet after 1945 but also the most difficult owing to the numerous references in his work to his personal history and to a cultural heri
One of the literary masterpieces of the century, this translation is now presented with facing-page German.We have a marvelous, almost legendary, image of the circumstances in which the composition o
