{"product_id":"wild-and-wounded-michael-hamburger-9780856463716","title":"Wild and Wounded: Shorter Poems 2000-2003","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWild and Wounded\u003c\/i\u003e collects Michael Hamburger's shorter poems since \u003ci\u003eIntersections \u003c\/i\u003e(2000). It is published to mark the 80th birthday of one of Britain's leading poets of the last half-century. The dominant theme in these poems is the passing of time - whether referring to the injured swan in the collection's title poem, a tree  surreptitiously dying', or the poet himself, comtemplating\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e... difficulties with grammar now, with tense, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith mood, with person, case - and, yes, the sense.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs illness, frailty, absence and obsolescence become more pressing to the poet, his poems, by contrast, achieve an enthralling robustness and vigour.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Hamburger was born in Berlin in 1924, and came to Britain as a child. He has taught widely in America and Britain and is the outstanding contemporary translator and critic of German literature. His awards include the German Federal Republic's Goethe Medal in 1986 for services to German literature. Anvil publishes several of his translations, including editions of Goethe, Hölderlin, Rilke and \u003ci\u003ePoems of Paul Celan\u003c\/i\u003e, which received the EC's European Translation Prize in 1990. His \u003ci\u003eCollected Poems 1941-1994 \u003c\/i\u003ewas published in 1995 by Anvil, who also publish his seminal critical work \u003ci\u003eThe Truth of Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e. His three subsequent volumes of poetry are \u003ci\u003eLate\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIntersections\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFrom a Diary of Non-Events\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Hamburger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 085646371X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780856463716\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Anvil Press Poetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 84\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.04h x 5.60w x 0.28d","brand":"Michael Hamburger","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48449024557311,"sku":"9780856463716","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_53a1a0ba-52b7-479d-a215-158758f4e67b.jpg?v=1777261622","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/wild-and-wounded-michael-hamburger-9780856463716","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}