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 Krüger brings us The 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 of the brutality of nature, and rejoicing in the simple wonder of life. ​Bearing witness to Krüger’s interactions with renowned poets and artists through his time as director of Hanser publishing house, 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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I.    My Desk in Allmanshausen        Not a Haiku        Postcard, May 2012       Three Winds, Pentecost        May        Near Münsing         Long Conversation        Crow-Eater         I Cannot Divine What it Meaneth         Wooden House         Happiness         Walk in the Woods         A Friend       Twilight         The Last Day of August         The Death of the Birch, 2011        Old Man under an Apple Tree         Nights on the Terrace         Photo Album         Memory from School         Class Reunion         Poem         Peripheral Symptoms of War     II.           In the Negev         Hotel Malibran, Venice         Hotel Near Erfurt         Message, 2012       Hotel Europa         Enlightenment         Flight to Istanbul         Harry Mulisch         Hotel Il Patriarca         Shame         After the Rain         Before the Storm         Street Scene in a Foreign City         Russian Cash         Four Lines for Lalla         Cinnamon         On Seagulls         Countryside Cafe         National Museum in Calcutta         India—Seven Postcards         Programme Poetry         The Hedgehog         How Poems Happen         Sleepless         Copyright   III.           Old Wooden House         A Poet         (Untitled)         In the Uckermark         Lentils in New York         Almost Nothing         Lost Time         Written from the Heart         Istanbul Revisited         Old Well         Diel         Walking, Slightly Moved         Czeslaw, Milosz         Translating         Outdated         What Still Has to be Done!         Antonio Tabucchi is Dead         Literarisches Colloquium, Berlin         Nicolas Born         Claude Simon         A Reminder         Whodunnit?         A Mirror         Tidying Up         In the Shed   IV.           Snow         New Year, 2012     New Year         Winter         Wretched Apples in February         Snow Dreamer         Dreamings         Palm Sunday, 2012         Seedlings         Beach Cafe         Short Trip         Summerhouse at Easter         The Current State of Affairs, 2012        At the Lake         Near Boston, at the Sea         Expecting Rain         Autumn         At the Baltic Sea, Very Early         Chiusi, Terre di Siena         The Spider and I         The Blackbird         Early Sun in the South         Cutting Grass         End of the Summer         Reverie         Still Pool         Clearing  Notes        
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780857428271
Publisert
2021-05-11
Utgiver
Vendor
Seagull Books London Ltd
Høyde
203 mm
Bredde
127 mm
Dybde
10 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
128

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Biographical note

Michael Krüger 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.