These fiftyfour poems, spanning four decades, depict a landscape at once recognizably mundane and grotesquely surreal. Grasss spirited humor and linguistic creativity transcend the cant of political poetry. The German originals face the translation. Translated by Michael Hamburger. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
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29,920 words176 pagesLexile NP
Published 19969780156003315
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