Jan Wagner

The Art of Topiary

Poems
Übersetzer: Keplinger, David

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

¿One of the most important German-language poets of the younger generation.¿¿Goethe Institut

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Milkweed Editions
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2017
• Polyglott
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 211g
• ISBN-13: 9781571314963
• ISBN-10: 1571314962
• Artikelnr.: 47306129

Autorenporträt

Jan Wagner is the recipient of the 2017 Georg Büchner Prize, one of Germany's most prestigious honors in literature. He has published six collections of poems since 2001, as well as two collections of essays, several edited volumes, and a number of translations. For his poetry, which has been translated into more than thirty languages, Wagner has received fellowships from the German Academy, the Villa Massimo in Rome, the Villa Aurora, and elsewhere. His literary awards include the Anna Seghers Award, the Ernst Meister Award for Poetry, and the Friedrich Hölderlin Award. A member of the German Academy of Language and Literature, Wagner lives in Berlin.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Translating [with] Jan Wagner
Part One
rhino
gecko
quince paté
essay on gnats
elderflower
december 1914
the west
wejherowo
teabag
augustin lopez: the art of topiary
chameleon
pinochle
nicosia
corn
Part Two
mushrooms
histories: onesilos
moor-oxen
see-saw
störtebeker
clover
bedsheets
in the well
self-portrait with a swarm of bees
lazarus
amish
elegy for knievel
oysters
solitaire
the man from the sea
doberman
the merman
steinway
sloes
centaurs' blues
essay on soap
Part Three
owl
from the globe factory
koalas
krynica morska
essay on napkins
nail
rain barrel variations
essay on fences
elk
ficus watkinsiana
dachshund
rübezahl
field poppy
pieter codde: portrait of a man with watch
koi
Notes
Acknowledgments