New Selected Poems

Expanded dual language edition of Germany's most important poet, adding work from his later collections Kiosk, Lighter Than Air and A History of Clouds to his earlier Bloodaxe Selected Poems. The translations are by Enzensberger himself and by Michael Hamburger, David Constantine and Esther Kinsky.

About the author

Hans Magnus Enzensberger is Germany's most important poet, as well as a provocative cultural essayist, a highly influential editor and one of Europe's leading political thinkers. His poetry's social and moral criticism of the post-war world owes much to Marxism, yet insists on the freedoms often denied by Communist governments; like Orwell he maintains that satire and criticism should not be party-political. Born in 1929, he grew up in Nazi Nuremberg. He studied in Germany and France, and in Freiburg under Martin Heidegger. He was a founder member of Group 47, a loose grouping of disaffected German intellectuals including Heinrich Boll and Gunter Grass, generally viewed as the most influential movement after the war.

Summary

Expanded dual language edition of Germany's most important poet, adding work from his later collections Kiosk, Lighter Than Air and A History of Clouds to his earlier Bloodaxe Selected Poems. The translations are by Enzensberger himself and by Michael Hamburger, David Constantine and Esther Kinsky.

Product details

• Authors: Hans Magnus Enzensberger
• Assisted by: David Constantine (Translation), David J. Constantine (Translation), Hans Magnus Enzensberger (Translation), Michael Hamburger (Translation), Esther Kinsky (Translation)
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2015
• EAN: 9781780372501
• ISBN: 978-1-78037-250-1
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 136 mm x 216 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 480 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies