Selected Poems and Prose

by Gottfried Benn and David Paisey

These selections from the esteemed career of Gottfried Benn--one of the most significant German poets of the 20th century--showcase his early, shockingly graphic depictions of human suffering and degradation, as well as the isolation and fragmentation of the human being adrift in a nihilistic world found in his later work. Translator David Paisey presents two selections, of verse and prose respectively, from Benn's large oeuvre, which are ordered...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847771505
• ISBN13: 9781847771506
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Carcanet Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"