Valuable Nail - Selected Poems

This first book-length collection of Eich's poems in English makes available a poet who was a soldier and prisoner of war and then began to resurrect his native tongue as a language for poetry. These poems were translated over a period of fifteen years, often in consultation with the author until his death in 1972.

Summary

This first book-length collection of Eich's poems in English makes available a poet who was a soldier and prisoner of war and then began to resurrect his native tongue as a language for poetry. These poems were translated over a period of fifteen years, often in consultation with the author until his death in 1972.

Product details

• Authors: Gunter Eich, Günter Eich, Stuart Friebert, David Walker, David Young
• Assisted by: Stuart Friebert (Translation), David Walker (Translation), David Young (Translation)
• Publisher: Oberlin College Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.08.1981
• EAN: 9780932440099
• ISBN: 978-0-932440-09-9
• No. of pages: 120
• Series: Field Translation Series; Field Translation Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies