Documents of Protest and Compassion

Documents of Protest and Compassion offers the first extensive critical assessment of Bauer''s considerable poetic oeuvre. In this long-overdue supplement to recent anthologies of Bauer''s poetry and essays on his life and work, Angelika Arend draws on Bauer''s diaries and letters to reveal the profoundly humane intentions that guided his choice of themes and structures. She shows that social prot...