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Erich Fried's poetry addresses both political and personal themes. Both thematic groups exist in a dialectic where the synthesis is both a concurrence and a convergence. Each provides a refuge from, and creates a resonance in, the other, so that both contents operate as mutual distractors and reminders. The intent of Fried's oeuvre forms a conduit which channels motivation from common antecedents. At the core of Fried's poetry are latent anxieties, stemming from early events and relationships. Conscious of the normal psychological response to anxiety, Fried recommends an awareness which allows the anxiety to be combated at its source. He seeks to replace a laming anxiety with a fearless, loving and stimulating variant. This book explores the complex strait between anxiety and hope in the presence of despair.
List of contents
Contents : Anxiety: Semantics and Sources - Natural Death - Atomic War - Loss, Loneliness and Death - Gegen Vergessen - Repressing of Natural Death - Repression of Death as a Consequence of (Atomic) War - A Courage to Fear - Hope and Utopia - Sermon on the Mount.
About the author
The Author: Billy Badger, born 1961 in Coleraine, Northern Ireland, first studied Mathematics at the University of Tasmania, gaining a Bachelor of Education in 1982. From 1991-1993 he lived in Bonn, Germany, returning to Tasmania, where he completed a Graduate Diploma in Modern Languages in 1995, a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in 1997 and a Ph.D. in 2002. He is currently Convenor of German at Massey University in New Zealand.
