Psyche Running: Selected Poems, 2005-2022 (German List)
This selected volume surveys two decades of German poetry, layering historical echoes, dream fragments, and the memory of cities. Its blend of intellectual play and melancholy vision shows the wide reach of contemporary European poetry.
Work Information
Through the echoes of history and fragments of dream, it reveals the depth of contemporary German poetry.
Psyche Running selects more than one hundred poems from Durs Grünbein's recent work, tracing roughly the last twenty years of his writing. Memory of Dresden, myth, history, and dream fragments overlap, and Karen Leeder's translation brings his reflective lyricism vividly into English.
Review Summaries
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The volume is praised for its long view and for poetry that is dense with thought. Its movement between classical references and history is admired, though some readers find it demanding and best read with attention.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Seagull Books
- Published
- 2024-05-06
- Pages
- 186 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 12.7 x 1.52 x 21.59 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781803092799
- ISBN-10
- 1803092793
- Price
- 4313 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Poetry/German
A dazzling selection of more than one hundred poems that trace the development of Durs Grünbein’s work over the past two decades. Born in Dresden in 1962, Durs Grünbein is the most significant and successful poet of his generation in Germany. Since 1988, when the then-twenty-five-year-old burst onto the scene with his poetry collection Grauzone morgens —a mordant reckoning with the East Germany he grew up in—Grünbein has published more than thirty books of poetry and prose, which have been translated into dozens of languages. In 2005 the volume Ashes for Breakfast introduced Grünbein to English-language readers for the first time by sampling poetry from his first four collections. Psyche Running picks up where that volume left off and offers a selection of poems from his nine subsequent collections, which shows how Grünbein has developed from his ironic take on the classical into an elegiac exploration of history through dream fragments and poems with a haunting existential unease.
Durs Grünbein was born in Dresden in 1962, and he now lives in Berlin and Rome. He is professor of poetics and aesthetics at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. He has written more than twenty-five books, including, most recently, Porcelain , also published by Seagull Books. Karen Leeder is a writer, critic and prize-winning translator of contemporary German literature including work by Durs Grünbein, Volker Braun, Michael Krüger, Evelyn Schlag and Raoul Schrott.