The New Sorrow Is Less Than the Old Sorrow

by Jenny Drai

A young Au Pair living in Germany reads Goethe's famous tragedy, The Sorrows of Young Werther, for the first time. Years later, she crafts an answer as she considers the storm of early love in her own life, the drudgery of work, and even Goethe's later response to his own text. In this exquisite cycle of prose poems, Jenny Drai's language twists around corners and bends at odd angles, delivering a voice at once deft and aching, sharp and hungry:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625579926
• ISBN13: 9781625579928
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Black Lawrence Press
• Length: 42 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.6"