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Bilingual Edition Hans Magnus Enzensberger is Germany's most important and influential living poet, a lightning rod in a stormy political and cultural landscape. The Sheep Meadow Press is proud to publish Enzensberger's Kiosk, as well as his Selected Poems, drawn from six volumes of his work, and Lighter Than Air: Moral Poems, translated by Reinhold Grimm. Come of age after the Third Reich, Enzensberger builds his poetry upon titanic German wreckage and tradition. Always historical and show more provocative, his humanity dares to sport a sublime malice toward all and charity for few. His revelations have something in common with certain post-Renaissance painters, whose Madonnas are both spiritual and lascivious. Lawrence Joseph writes, "Enzensberger, more than any poet of his generation anywhere in the world, comes before the public with his own precepts, codes and taboos . . . Whose work has delved into and captured the thought of our time to the extent that Enzensberger's has?" show less

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Splendido! 180 pagine dense e coinvolgenti. Ho cominciato a segnare i punti salienti, poi ho smesso, trovandone spesso più di uno per pagina. Poi ho ricominciato. Insomma una guerra di segnalini e post-it. Non conosco abbastanza il tedesco per permettermi l'originale (messo comunque lì, a fronte, in bella mostra, e compulsato, di tanto in tanto, per apprezzare qualche allitterazione) ma l'italiano della bravissima traduttrice fila e scorre in modo assai piacevole. Meglio del Titanic, se si possono fare graduatorie: Boll, Brecht, Durrenmatt, l'ironia e la rassegnazione assieme, con un lungo passaggio "sotto la calotta cranica", a ricordarci che lo spirito, alla fin fine, dentro un corpo sta.

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Hans Magnus Enzensberger is internationally known as an essayist, journalist, and poet

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Poetry, Fiction and Literature
DDC/MDS
831.914Literature & rhetoricGerman & related literaturesGerman poetry1900-1900-19901945-1990
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PT2609 .N9 .K5613Language and LiteratureGerman, Dutch and Scandinavian literaturesGerman literatureIndividual authors or works1860/70-1960
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