Psyche Running - Durs Grünbein

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Résumé :
A dazzling selection of more than one hundred poems that trace the development of Durs Gr?nbein's work over the past two decades.

Born in Dresden in 1962, Durs Gr?nbein is the most significant and successful poet of his generation in Germany. Since 1988, when the then-twenty-five-year-old burst onto the scene with his poetry collection Grauzone morgens--a mordant reckoning with the East Germany he grew up in--Gr?nbein has published more than thirty books of poetry and prose, which have been translated into dozens of languages.

In 2005 the volume Ashes for Breakfast introduced Gr?nbein to English-language readers for the first time by sampling poetry from his first four collections. Psyche Running picks up where that volume left off and offers a selection of poems from his nine subsequent collections, which shows how Gr?nbein has developed from his ironic take on the classical into an elegiac exploration of history through dream fragments and poems with a haunting existential unease.
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Biographie:
Durs Gr?nbein was born in Dresden in 1962, and he now lives in Berlin and Rome. He is professor of poetics and aesthetics at the Kunstakademie D?sseldorf. He has written more than twenty-five books, including, most recently, Porcelain, also published by Seagull Books. Karen Leeder is a writer, critic and prize-winning translator of contemporary German literature including work by Durs Gr?nbein, Volker Braun, Michael Kr?ger, Evelyn Schlag and Raoul Schrott....

Sommaire:
A dazzling selection of more than one hundred poems that trace the development of Durs Gr?nbein's work over the past two decades.

Born in Dresden in 1962, Durs Gr?nbein is the most significant and successful poet of his generation in Germany. Since 1988, when the then-twenty-five-year-old burst onto the scene with his poetry collection Grauzone morgens--a mordant reckoning with the East Germany he grew up in--Gr?nbein has published more than thirty books of poetry and prose, which have been translated into dozens of languages.

In 2005 the volume Ashes for Breakfast introduced Gr?nbein to English-language readers for the first time by sampling poetry from his first four collections. Psyche Running picks up where that volume left off and offers a selection of poems from his nine subsequent collections, which shows how Gr?nbein has developed from his ironic take on the classical into an elegiac exploration of history through dream fragments and poems with a haunting existential unease.
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