Ashes for Breakfast: Selected Poems

by Durs Grünbein

Book Overview

The first English translation of Germany's leading contemporary poet. ...what is the whole surreal jokeshop of terrors compared to the infinitely chance little tricks of a poem. --from "MonoLogical Poem #1" Born in Dresden in 1962, Durs Gr?nbein is the most significant and successful poet to emerge from the former East Germany, a place where, he wrote, "the best refuge was a closed mouth." In unsettling, often funny, sometimes savage lines whose vivid...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374260745
• ISBN13: 9780374260743
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"