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Grünbein, Durs.
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The bars of Atlantis...
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The bars of Atlantis : selected essays / Durs Grünbein ; translated from the German by John Crutchfield, Michael Hofmann, and Andrew Shields ; edited and with an introduction by Michael Eskin.
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Grünbein, Durs.
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
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Essays.
ISBN:
9780374260620 (alk. paper)
0374260621 (alk. paper)
Description:
xx, 323 p. ; 22 cm.
Edition:
1st ed.
Contents:
Brief report to an academy -- Volcano and poem -- Breaking the body -- Childhood in the diorama -- Three miniatures -- The age of deep-sea fish -- Darwin's eyes -- My Babylonish brain -- To Lord Chandos : a fax from the future -- Q as in Quotation -- On the question of style -- The poem and its secret -- Why live without writing -- Accented time -- The bars of Atlantis -- Madonna and Venus -- One Sunday of life -- The vanished square -- A little blue girl -- The thinker's voice -- The stroke of Apollo -- In the name of extremes -- A tear for Petronius -- Brother Juvenal -- Between antiquity and X.
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A collection of essays by a German poet and essayist includes biographical pieces, thoughts on the intersection of art and science, reflections on the poet's craft, and explorations into the meaning of classical antiquity.
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Hawaii State Library
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834.914 Gr
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