One of Latin Americans most important poets of the twentieth century, Juan Gelman (19302014) spent much of his life in exile from his native Argentina during the Dirty War.
Vom Erfinder des Mondschafs: lustige Verse für Kinder und ErwachseneGanz schön verrückt geht es hier zu: Ein Knie geht einsam durch die Welt, ein Seufzer läuft Schlittschuh, zwei Trichter wandeln durch die Nacht, die Nachtalp-Henne lacht .
'An Interesting Detail is full of returns, 'the costumes and repetitions available' to the speaker to any of us in a new place; the forms, the situated patterns of being and doing we borrow from the past and resurrect here, for good or ill' FRAN LOCKAn important and timely collection spanning time and space, pain and power, from an innovative poetic voiceThe poems in An Interesting Detail confront our shared, layered past (both planetary and human) and its knotty relationship to the present, stretching from today to prehistory, in a voice that is knowing and yearning, sincere and sardonic, and at times defiant.
This book introduces a collection of twentieth-century American poetry written in Yiddish, aiming to bring this rich cultural and literary heritage to a broader audience.