Parallel German text and English translation Includes bibliographical references and indexes Prefatory Note / Reinhold Grimm and Irmgard Hunt From: Phantasus / Arno Holz (1863-1929) The Quiet Town / Richard Dehmel (1863-1920) The Blind Youth / Frank Wedekind (1864-1918) Inside the Bouquet / Max Dauthendey (1867-1918) [Untitled] ; [Untitled] / Stefan George (1868-1933) My People ; My Blue Piano / Else Lasker-Schuler (1869-1945) The Two ; Evanescence / Hugo Von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929) Reconnaissance Patrol ; Assault / August Stramm (1874-1915) The Panther ; Woman Going Blind ; Childhood / Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) In the Evening's Gentle Sunshine / Franz Kafka (1883-1924) On Crossing the Rhine Bridge at Cologne by Night / Ernst Stadler (1883-1914) From: "At the Edge of the Great City" ; Envoi ; Down There ; Winter Evening, Berlin / Oskar Loerke (1884-1941) Subway Train ; A Word / Gottfried Benn (1886-1956) Dream of Evil ; The West ; Sleep ; Grodek / Georg Trakl (1887-1914) End of the World / Jakob van Hoddis (a.k.a. Hans Davidsohn) (1887-1942) Kaspar Is Dead / Hans Arp (1887-1966) Umbra Vitae ; Why Do You Come, White Moths ... ; With Pointed Head She Rises ... ; Clearer Now the Days Are Passing ... / Georg Heyn (1887-1912) Morning / Alfred Lichtenstein (1889-1914) A Man Is Dumb ; The Lasting Things / Franz Werfel (1890-1945) Journey into Misery ; In Age-Old Lakes ; [Untitled] ; [Untitled] / Yvan Goll (1891-1950) In the Blue Distance ; Oh Those Smokestacks ; Mouth Sucking in Death / Nelly Sachs (1891-1970) The Unicorn / Gertrud Kolmar (1894-1943) Of Poor B.B. ; To Those Born Later / Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) Daphne / Elisabeth Langgasser (1899-1950) Hiroshima ; Not Courageous ; Outside the Door ; A Poem ; Genazzano / Marie Luise Kaschnitz (1901-1974) The Well ; In the Color of Sleep ; So That No Light Would Remain to Love Us / Rose Auslander (1901-1988) A Charter Flight into the Past / Hans Sahl (1902-1993) Roads ; [Untitled] ; Rome ; Aristeas (II) / Peter Huchel (1903-1981) Inventory ; Where I Live ; The Man in the Blue Smock ; The End of a Summer / Gunter Eich (1907-1972) At That Place Was Another House / Ernst Meister (1911-1979) Remigration / Hilde Domin (1912- ) Free Fall ; Fear ; Robinson ; The Wind in the Room ; In the Rearview Mirror / Karl Krolow (1915-1999) East ; Invocation ; Deserted Village ; Report ; Trakl / Johannes Bobrowski (1917-1965) Pslam ; [Untitled] ; [Untitled] ; [Untitled] / Paul Celan (1920-1970) Logos ; Naturalization ; Invitation to Forget ; Retrospect / Erich Fried (1921-1988) Fragment III ; [Untitled] / Helmut Heissenbuttel (1921-1996) Winter Answer ; Correspondence / Ilse Aichinger (1921- ) Tarry Awhile, Restless Bird ; Particularly Effortless He Lay / Walter Hollerer (1922- ) Ostia Will Receive You / Friederike Mayrocker (1924- ) Field to Red Tulips / Margot Scharpenberg (1924- ) Words ; [Untitled Concrete Poem] / Eugen Gomringer (1925- ) A Revolt in the Mirror / Wolfgang Bachler (1925- ) At the Delicatessen Shop ; Pockets ; A summer song / Ernst Jandl (1925-2000) Every Day ; Land of Fog ; The Firstborn Land ; A Paean to the Sun ; Verily / Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) Transformation ; Afterwards / Gunter Grass (1927- ) Brecht / Heiner Muller (1929-1995) Venice Lost ; Theatrum Mundi ; The Jewish Cemetery at Berlin-Weissensee ; Sestri Levante (Liguria II) / Gunter Kunert (1929- ) Almost Bashfully ; The Fiasco ; Columbus ; Atlantis ; Labyrinth ; Love Poem (II) / Walter Helmut Fritz (1929- ) Pallas / Cyrus Atabay (1929-1996) Formerly, When We Still Parted the Big Rivers / Peter Ruhmkorf (1929- ) For the Primer of Senior High ; In Memory of William Carlos Williams ; Old Revolution ; Finnish Tango ; War, Like ; The Rich ; In Memory of Sir Hiram Maxim (1840-1916) / Hans Magnus Enzensberger (1929- ) In the Proximity of Andy Warhol / Jurgen Becker (1932- ) The Wall / Reiner Kunze (1933- ) Speaking of the Poem / Christoph Meckel (1935- ) Already the Air Smells of Snow ; Winterly Music ; I Am Very Gentle ; I Wanted to Kill My King / Sarah Kirsch (1935- ) Letter to Medea / Helga Novak (1935- ) Desert Storm / Volker Braun (1939- ) Self-Portrait in the Supermarket / Rolf Dieter Brinkmann (1940-1975) Midday / Irmgard Elsner Hunt (1944- ) Early November ; To Mainz! / Ursula Krechel (1947- ) Marriage ; From: "meadow and might" / Friederike Roth (1948- ) The Massacre of the Innocents ; Documentary Film / Holger Teschke (1958- ) Bad Luck with the Second Throw ; Alba. |
