Novemberland - Selected Poems 1956-1993

These fifty-four poems, spanning four decades, depict a landscape at once recognizably mundane and grotesquely surreal. Grass's spirited humor and linguistic creativity transcend the cant of political poetry. The German originals face the translation. Translated by Michael Hamburger. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

About the author

GÜNTER GRASS (1927–2015), Germany's most celebrated contemporary writer, attained worldwide renown with the publication of his novel The Tin Drum in 1959. A man of remarkable versatility, Grass was a poet, playwright, social critic, graphic artist, and novelist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1999.
 

Product details

• Authors: Grass, Gnter Grass, Gunter Grass, Günter Grass
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.04.1996
• EAN: 9780156003315
• ISBN: 978-0-15-600331-5
• No. of pages: 172
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 289 g
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama