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Ashes for breakfast
selected poems
By Grunbein, Durs & Hofmann, Michael
- ISBN
- 978-0-37426-074-3
- Publisher
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on June 1, 2005
Born in Dresden in 1962, when the city was under East Germany's Communist rule, Grunbein has established himself as the leading poetic voice of unified Germany after the fall of the Wall in 1990. A gifted poet and clever scavenger of various literary traditions, he picks through the linguistic debris of European culture to mold his findings into well-metered and often deeply captivating verse. Packed into this selection, which has been culle...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
