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Grass, Günter

Summary: A bilingual poetry collection. In Nursery Rhyme, he writes: "Who laughs here, who has laughed? / Here we have ceased to laugh. / To laugh here is now treason / The laugher has a reason."

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1996

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 GRA

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Summary: Over the last fifteen years, in his two volumes of New Poems as well as in The Book of Images and Uncollected Poems, Edward Snow has emerged as one of Rainer Maria Rilke's most able English-language interpreters. In his translations, Snow adheres faithfully to the intent of Rilke's German while constructing nuanced, colloquial poems in English.

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Publisher / Publication Date: North Point Press 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 RIL

Grass, Günter

Summary: The final work of the Nobel Prize winner Gunter Grass--a witty and elegiac series of meditations on writing, growing old, the world In spite of the trials of old age, and with the end in sight, suddenly everything seems possible again: love letters, soliloquies, scenes of jealousy, swan songs, social satire, and moments of happiness crowd onto the page. Only an aging artist who has once more...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.8 GRA

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 RIL

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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 831 AFT

Arendt, Hannah

Summary: The German-Jewish political philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) is world-renowned for her work on totalitarianism, the human condition, and the banality of evil. Not many people know that she also wrote poems--yet the language of poetry, especially that of Goethe and Schiller, was a banister for Arendt's thinking throughout much of her adult life. Between 1923 and 1961, Arendt wrote...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company

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