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With five critically acclaimed collections--Nights in the Iron Hotel (1983), Acrimony (1986), K.S. in Lakeland: New and Selected Poems (1990), Corona, Corona (1993), and Approximately Nowhere (1999)--Michael Hofmann has established himself as one of the truly original poetic voices of our time. His poetry, both public and personal, expansive and intimate, looks in three directions--toward the Germany of his birth and toward his adopted homelands, England and America--and his perspective on all three is surprising, alarmed, and alarming. Influenced by...

Der Autor geht der Frage nach, ob Hans Henny Jahnn in seinem Komponistenroman Fluss ohne Ufer musikalische Erzahltechniken verwendete. Ausgehend von Jahnns Rede Die Aufgabe des Dichters in dieser Zeit erfolgt eine Skizzierung der Grundlinien der Asthetik, der Baukunst und Musik, die der Autor dann per Analogie auf die Dichtung ubertragt. Zum Verstandnis der Harmonik und des musikalischen Erzahlens zieht er u.a. Kepler und Leibniz heran. Der zweite Teil der Arbeit deutet Fluss ohne Ufer mit Hilfe musikalischer Kompositionstechniken wie Fuge, Polyphonie und Kontrapunkt als dissonante Utopie....

This groundbreaking anthology will serve as the standard for years to come. Editor Michael Hofmann has assembled brilliant translations of the major German poets, from Rilke and Brecht to Durs Grunbein and Jan Wagner, in an approachable, readable, and endlessly interesting collection. Here we find poetry as a living counter-force to socio-political reality; poetry of dissent and fear and protest; poetry of private griefs and musics. From the subtlety and elegance of Brecht, to the extraordinary jargon-glooms of Gottfried Benn, to the oblique and straightforward responses to the country's...

Since 1923 the Sammlung Tusculum has published authoritative editions of Greek and Latin works together with a German translation. The original texts are comprehensively annotated, and feature an introductory chapter. In the new volumes, additional essays delve into specific aspects of the works, illuminating their historical context and reception to the present day. The high academic quality of the new editions together with clearly written essays and annotations make the Sammlung Tusculum essential reading for students who are discovering an ancient author for the first...