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""As revelatory as it is disconcerting, and grounded in an encyclopedic knowledge, this book offers an eye-opening analysis of a major contemporary poet, Durs Grünbein, and of the cultural discourses of the Berlin Republic. Eskin uncovers an anti-Americanism and related antisemitism hiding in plain sight in Grünbein's oeuvre, and trenchantly asks how and why this aspect of the work of a poet so prominent in current German letters could be overlooked. Timely, cogent, uncomfortable yet compelling, this is a book that everyone must read to better understand our current troubled times."" --Benjamin Morgan, Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Fellow and Tutor in German, Worcester College, University of Oxford, UK ""With empathy, a fine eye for structural correlations, and sorrow, Michael Eskin brings out the fraught historical analogies, moral equivalences, and sedimented prejudices that mar the work of a great contemporary German poet. Durs Grünbein's most effective English-language advocate is also his most stringent critic. And that's as it should be."" --Haun Saussy, University Professor, University of Chicago, USA; author of Are We Comparing Yet? ""This timely book, which chronicles the encounter between a critic and a poet, is as much a memoir as it is a book of criticism and should be read as a meditation on German culture today. It is a reminder that despite the efforts put into reckoning with the past, ideologies long declared dead can reappear in unexpected places."" --Martin Puchner, Byron and Anita Wien Professor of Drama and of English and Comparative Literature, Harvard University, USA; author of The Language of Thieves: My Family's Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate

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Michael Eskin has taught at Cambridge University, UK and Columbia University, USA. He is a critic, translator, philosopher and publisher, and his books include Ethics and Dialogue in the Works of Levinas, Bakhtin, Mandel’shtam, and Celan (2000), Poetic Affairs: Celan, Grünbein, Brodsky (2008), and Descartes der Metapher: Neun Tauchgänge ins Dichterdasein Durs Grünbeins (2022).

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