One Lark, One Horse

Informationen zum Autor Michael Hofmann was born in 1957 in Freiburg, Germany, and came to England in 1961. He has published four volumes of poems and won a Cholmondeley Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for poetry. His translations have won many awards, including the Independent 's Foreign Fiction Award, the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the P.E.N./Book of the Month Club Translation Prize. His reviews and criticism are gathered in Behind the Lines (2001). Ashes for Breakfast - his translations of the poetry of Durs Grunbein - appeared in 2005, and his Selected Poems was published in 2008. His translation of Jenny Erpenbeck's novel Kairos was winner of the International Booker Prize 2024. Klappentext The first new collection of poems in decades from the German-born poet, essayist and translator, set to introduce new fans to his approachable, companionable voice as he considers where the world stands as he turns sixty. The first new collection of poems in nearly twenty years from German-born poet, essayist and translator - now in paperback. Zusammenfassung Approaching his sixtieth birthday, the poet explores where he finds himself, geographically and in life, treating with wit and compassion such universal themes as ageing and memory, place, and the difficulty for the individual to exist at all in an ever bigger and more bestial world.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Hofmann, Hofmann Michael
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9780571342303
• ISBN: 978-0-571-34230-3
• No. of pages: 104
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 10 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POETRY / General, Poetry by individual poets, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), Modern and contemporary poetry / poems