Durs Grünbein
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Ashes for Breakfast: Selected Poems
Durs Grünbein, Michael Hofmann
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 Grünbein 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 images reflect his deep love for and connection with the…
