Psyche Running: Selected Poems, 2005-2022 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781803092799)

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

Born in Dresden in 1962, Durs Gr?bein 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?bein 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?bein 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?bein 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.


Author: Durs Gr?bein
ISBN-10: 1803092793
ISBN-13: 9781803092799
Publisher: Seagull Books
Language: English
Published: 05/06/2024
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.77h x 5.14w x 0.82d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/15/2024