Under the Edge of Night
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Odes and elegies set in Prussia, Lithuania, and on the killing fields of the Eastern Front during World War II. These are war wounds in poetic form, bringing buried history and oppression powerfully into the light. Often compared to the poetry of Paul Celan and Nelly Sachs, the postwar verse of Johannes Bobrowski is set in the East Prussian and Lithuanian landscapes of his childhood, and in the killing fields he witnessed as a young German soldier on the eastern front during World War II. Bobrowski described his poems as his "war wounds," and in these odes and elegies of the mid-fifties and early sixties one can see and hear his belated healing process at work: to bring what has lain buried and forgotten back to the surface, in the hope that Germany's historic oppression of Jewish, Slavic, Baltic, and Roma people might finally be honestly addressed. In this new dual-language and freshly annotated translation, the idiosyncratic rhythms and imagistic urgencies of Bobrowski's verse come to life in Richard Sieburth's English.
New York Review of Books
Under the Edge of Night
$28.00
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$28.00
Regular price
Book Details
- Publisher:
- New York Review of Books
- ISBN:
- 9798896230977
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 496
- Authors:
- Johannes Bobrowski
- Published Date:
- 2026-10-27
- Language:
- English
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