Seagull Library of German Literature #: Seasonal Time Change

Selected Poems

Seagull Library of German Literature #: Seasonal Time Change
Michael Kruger, Joseph Given
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11 May 2021 UK
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9780857428271
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Our twice-yearly daylight savings holiday, in which we faithfully, collectively adjust our clocks, is purely human tampering with the calendar. Yet it is a practice that is embedded in nature' s principles, even as we exact more sunlight for ourselves in an over-organized, technological world. Mirroring this dichotomy, Michael Kruger brings us Seasonal Time Change, a collection of poems where an exacting eye is cast on nature. The poet' s perspective is observant, stringent, and very human, bringing both intellect and emotion to the page. Translated by Joseph Given, the verses are in turn scrutinizing, wistful about the brutality of nature, and rejoicing in the simple wonder of life. Bearing witness to Kruger' s interactions with renowned poets and artists through his time as director of Hanser Publishing, proximity and relationships are ongoing themes in this volume. Together, the poems remind us of our own mortality and of the finiteness of nature, but also our need for celebration even-perhaps especially-in times of darkness.

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"Seasonal Time Change: Selected Poems, Kruger' s latest book to be translated and published in English, presents almost exclusively short poems in which the beauty and iniquities of nature often mirror the unvarnished ironies of human endeavor, and is an accessible, excellent introduction to Kruger' s poetry for an American readership. Most poems in Seasonal Time Change are well under a page, precise in image, deft, witty, and wryly jaundiced in their view of the poet' s world caught between a desultory urban idyll and nature' s unsentimental image. "-- "Rain Taxi"
Michael Kruger was the director of Hanser Publishing until his retirement in 2013. He is the author of many books of poetry and prose. He lives in Munich. Joseph Given is a Berlin-based literary translator.
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ISBN-13: 9780857428271
Published: 11 May 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Seagull Books London
Publisher: Seagull Books London
Format: Paperback
Height: 203mm
Width: 127mm
Spine: 13mm
Pages: 128

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