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A dazzling selection of more than one hundred poems that trace the development of Durs Grünbein’s work over the past two decades. Born in Dresden in 1962, Durs Grünbein is the most significant and successful poet of his generation in Germany. Since 1988, when the then-twenty-five-year-old burst onto the scene with his poetry collection Grauzone morgens—a mordant reckoning with the East Germany he grew up in—Grünbein has published more than thirty books of poetry and prose, which have been translated into dozens of languages. In 2005 the volume Ashes for Breakfast introduced Grünbein to English-language readers for the first time by sampling poetry from his first four collections. Psyche Running picks up where that volume left off and offers a selection of poems from his nine subsequent collections, which shows how Grünbein has developed from his ironic take on the classical into an elegiac exploration of history through dream fragments and poems with a haunting existential unease.  

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Author:   Durs Grünbein ,  Karen Leeder
Publisher:   Seagull Books London Ltd
Imprint:   Seagull Books London Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 12.70cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9781803092799

ISBN 10:   1803092793
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   07 June 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Configured Night From: Der Misanthrop auf Capri: Historien / Gedichte (2005) The Misanthrope on Capri: Histories / Poems The Misanthrope on Capri A Colonist in Octodurus Julia Livilla Fantasy on the Public Lavatories “Siv me amas” Epiphany with Centaurs Active From: Porzellan: Poem vom Untergang meiner Stadt (2005) Porcelain: Poem on the Downfall of my City From: Strophen für übermorgen (2007) Verses for the Day after Tomorrow Childhood in the Diorama Née Wachtel What I am Crossing the Alps The Astronomer Exaltations in Sleep Echo will now say a word or two Mimosa From: Aroma: ein römisches Zeichenbuch (2010) Aroma: A Roman Sketchbook Aroma XIII (Little Sun Song) XIV (The Accident) XXIII (Lyceum) XLIX (Swarms of Starlings) Torso of Polyphemus Behind Trajan’s Market Roman Houses Agave From: Koloss im Nebel (2013) Colossus in the Mist Interior with Owl I Teapot with Persimmon Fruit Dragonflies in Dahomey Inspector Kobold Calypso Deep When no Credo is Left Island without Sirens Turkish Baths Interior with Owl II From: Cyrano oder Die Rückkehr vom Mond (2014). Cyrano or the Journey back from the Moon Riccioli Carnet Phocylides Ibn Firnas Oenopides Descartes Rabbi Levi Endymion Hertz Tacchini Pontormo From: Die Jahre im Zoo. Ein Kaleidoskop (2015) The Zoo Years. A Kaleidoscope The Doctrine of Photography From: Zündkerzen (2017) Sparkplugs From a Book of Weaknesses Hotel Panama Psyche Running Décolleté Certain Spots Artichokes Transit The Aviary of Painting The Stillness torn apart at noon Vacancies Pine Copse On learning old Vocabulary Dangerous Absences Seven Pines Conferencier Inner Emptiness Kiosk by the Sea Misanthropic Humanist Under the Surface The Projector Asked what it is From: Äquidistanz (2022) Equidistance Not the Woodpecker Expressionist Film East-West-Axis Schlachtensee Dreilinden Contemplation, clear as tears In Cold Arms of Water Lobus frontalis 23rd August 1939 Flea Market 1962 Hypothesis Lumière Quantum Foam Theory of Signs Equidistance Footnote to Myself

Reviews

“Rendered in spikily musical tones by Leeder, Grünbein’s latest is full of difficult consolations and a sighing sort of absurdity. . . . These eloquent, angular poems are rich in thoughtful noticing and a refreshingly idiosyncratic unpacking of history, geography, and myth.” * Publishers Weekly *

Author Information

Durs Grünbein was born in Dresden in 1962, and he now lives in Berlin and Rome. He is professor of poetics and aesthetics at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. He has written more than twenty-five books, including, most recently, Porcelain, also published by Seagull Books. Karen Leeder is a writer, critic and prize-winning translator of contemporary German literature including work by Durs Grünbein, Volker Braun, Michael Krüger, Evelyn Schlag and Raoul Schrott.

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