{"product_id":"shadow-lands-johannes-bobrowski-9780811212762","title":"Shadow Lands: Selected Poems","description":"Johannes Bobrowski is widely regarded as the most important German poet of this century. He began to write poetry on the Eastern Front in 1941 where, as a 24-year-old German soldier in Kaunas, he saw the \"slavering wolves\" of the SS drive the \"grey processions\" over a hill to death. A prisoner-of-war in Russia until 1949, he returned to Berlin to write with a purpose: to inform his countrymen of the history and myths of Eastern Europe and to preserve the memory of his childhood home. The poems in \u003cem\u003eShadow Lands\u003c\/em\u003e reflect Bobrowski's hope, in the words of Michael Hamburger, \"that he might succeed poetically in bearing witness to that vanished world,\" that is, the world of Eastern Germany before the war. With an almost real lyrical beauty, he evokes the pre-Christian era of the gods and heroes of the ancient Prussians. The poems also resonate with the most eloquent and picturesque descriptions of Bobrowski's homeland--its rivers, its forests and quiet villages--ultimately leaving us with a sense of \"the hiddenness of all perfect things.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Johannes Bobrowski, Matthew Mead, Ruth Mead\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0811212769\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811212762\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/17\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 206\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.49lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.88h x 5.14w x 0.55d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/1994 pg. 230\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/29\/1994 pg. 68","brand":"Johannes Bobrowski","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43980580323583,"sku":"9780811212762","price":10.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_de8e3066-980e-4724-940f-b961a4d217e9.jpg?v=1683250711","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shadow-lands-johannes-bobrowski-9780811212762","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}