Rubble Flora
selected poems ; [The German List]
Autor*in: Braun, Volker
Reihe: The German List
Jahr: 2014
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 169 S.
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- 'Rubble Flora' is a selection of poems from the distinguished, half-century-long career of German poet Volker Braun. Born in the former East Germany, Braun is a humane, witty, brave and disappointed poet. In the East, his poetry upheld the voice of the individual imagination and identified with a utopian possibility that never became reality. He might be said to have found a truly singular voice amid the colossal upheavals of 1989-exploring the triumph of capitalism and the languages of advertising, terror, politics and war. At the same time, Braun is a sensual poet in tune with the natural landscape. He has his own touchstones in world literature, and many of his poems set quotations from Rimbaud, Shakespeare and Brecht into his own context, where they work as ironic illuminations of a present plight. The literary principle of his work lies in the friction of these different voices, whether cast into free form, collage or classical verse. Cumulatively, 'Rubble Flora' offers a searing vision of these transformative decades.
Titelinformationen
Titel: Rubble Flora
Reihe: The German List
Autor*in: Braun, Volker
Übersetzer*in: Leeder, Karen
Verlag: Seagull Books
ISBN: 9780857422491
Kategorie: Belletristik & Unterhaltung, Lyrik, Gesellschaft & Politik
Dateigröße: 1 MB
Format: PDF
Max. Ausleihdauer: 21 Tage