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.
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