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20%OFFHans Magnus Enzensberger - New Selected Poems - 9781780372501 - V9781780372501
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New Selected Poems

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Description for New Selected Poems Paperback. Expanded bilingual edition of Germany's most important poet, adding work from later collections including Kiosk and Lighter Than Air to his earlier Bloodaxe Selected Poems. Translator(s): Hamburger, Michael; Constantine, David; Enzensberger, Hans Magnus. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 215 x 31. Weight in Grams: 600.
As well as being Germany's most important poet, Hans Magnus Enzensberger is a provocative cultural essayist and one of Europe's leading political thinkers. No British poet can match him in his range of interests and his moral passion. Enzensberger is a cultured, learned, widely knowledgeable man, but his poems wear their knowledge, learning and culture very lightly. Perfectly at ease in a variety of poetic forms, he presents us again and again with things that matter. This is intelligent and pointed poetry in the tradition of Brecht, humanely political and generously engaged. The poems have the ease and the lightness ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780372501
SKU
V9781780372501
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About Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Hans Magnus Enzensberger is Germany's most important poet, as well as a provocative cultural essayist, a highly influential editor and one of Europe's leading political thinkers. His poetry's social and moral criticism of the post-war world owes much to Marxism, yet insists on the freedoms often denied by Communist governments; like Orwell he maintains that satire and criticism should not ... Read more

Reviews for New Selected Poems
'Hans Magnus Enzensberger is a poet of formidable intelligence and range. Like Brecht before him, he combines an intense political imagination with lyric gusto. The reader discovers in him both a satirist and a friend' - George Steiner. 'A voice of ferocious urbanity, laying bare the horrors of the modern German state and resignedly picking out stark cameos of the ... Read more

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