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They are nine women with much in common--all German speaking, all poets, all personal witnesses to the horror and devastation that was World War II. Yet, in this deeply moving collection, each provides a singularly personal glimpse into the effects of war on language, place, poetry, and womanhood. After Every War is a book of translations of women poets living in Europe in the decades before and after World War II: Rose Ausländer, Elisabeth Langgässer, Nelly Sachs, Gertrud Kolmar, Else Lasker-Schüler, Ingeborg Bachmann, Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Dagmar Nick, and Hilde Domin. Several of the writers are Jewish and, therefore, also witnesses and participants in one of the darkest occasions of human cruelty, the Holocaust. Their poems, as well as those of the other writers, provide a unique biography of the time--but with a difference. These poets see public events through the lens of deep private losses. They chart the small occasions, the bittersweet family ties, the fruit dish on a table, the lost soul arriving at a railway station; in other words, the sheer ordinariness through which cataclysm is experienced, and by which life is cruelly shattered. They reclaim these moments and draw the reader into them. The poems are translated and introduced, with biographical notes on the authors, by renowned Irish poet Eavan Boland. Her interest in the topic is not abstract. As an Irish woman, she has observed the heartbreaking effects of violence on her own country. Her experience has drawn her closer to these nine poets, enabling her to render into English the beautiful, ruminative quality of their work and to present their poems for what they are: documentaries of resilience--of language, of music, and of the human spirit--in the hardest of times.

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830-1 "20" --- 830-1 "19" --- Duitse literatuur: poëzie--21e eeuw. Periode 2000-2099 --- Duitse literatuur: poëzie--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- German poetry --- History and criticism. --- 830-1 "19" Duitse literatuur: poëzie--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- German literature --- History and criticism

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This study of contemporary German poetry represents the first attempt to examine comprehensively and at some length the lyric response to the unification period. It sets out to investigate, by means of close textual analysis, whether the German 'Wende' was also a turning-point for poetry, exploring how GDR poets responded both to the revolutionary events of 1989 and subsequently to the new, united Germany. An introductory chapter considers what is distinct about poetry as a genre, especially under censorship or amid historic change, as well as outlining the post-unification 'Literaturstreit'. The following chapter offers a survey of the poet's role in the GDR from 1949 until 1989. Two central chapters then gather the poetry of the 'Wende' and unification as a corpus of work and characterize it, through the elucidation of recurring themes, motifs and techniques. The volume strikes a balance between giving a general overview of poetry written in 1989-1996 and focusing on individual poets whose work is particularly compelling. After identifying broad trends across a wide range of individual poems, collections and anthologies, single chapters therefore examine in greater depth the work of Volker Braun and Durs Grünbein. The concluding chapter addresses the issue of a separate GDR literature. Finally, an extensive, structured bibliography is provided, covering the poetry, literary criticism and cultural history of the period.

Poets, German --- Germany --- History --- Poetry --- 830-1 "19" --- Duitse literatuur: poëzie--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- 830-1 "19" Duitse literatuur: poëzie--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- Poetry. --- German poetry --- History and criticism --- German poets --- Braun, Volker (1939-....) --- Grünbein, Durs (1962-....) --- Poésie allemande --- Littérature allemande --- Allemagne --- Critique et interprétation --- Allemagne (est) --- 1990-.... --- Histoire et critique --- 1989-1990 (Unification) --- Dans la littérature --- Grünbein, Durs (1962-....) --- Poésie allemande --- Littérature allemande --- Critique et interprétation --- Dans la littérature