For the Dying Calves(English, Hardcover, Gruenbein Durs)

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For the Dying Calves(English, Hardcover, Gruenbein Durs) is written by Gruenbein Durs and published by Seagull Books London Ltd. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 085742954X (ISBN 10) and 9780857429544 (ISBN 13).

Poetically written and originally given as lectures, this is a moving essay collection from Durs Gruenbein. In his four Lord Weidenfeld Lectures held in Oxford in 2019, German poet Durs Gruenbein dealt with a topic that has occupied his mind ever since he began to perceive his own position within the past of his nation, his linguistic community, and his family: How is it possible that history can determine the individual poetic imagination and segregate it into private niches? Shouldn't poetry look at the world with its own sovereign eyes instead? In the form of a collage or "photosynthesis," in image and text, Gruenbein lets the fundamental opposition between poetic license and almost overwhelming bondage to history appear in an exemplary way. From the seeming trifle of a stamp with the portrait of Adolf Hitler, he moves through the phenomenon of the "Fuehrer's streets" and into the inferno of aerial warfare. In the end, Gruenbein argues that we are faced with the powerlessness of writing and the realization, valid to this day, that comes from confronting history. As he muses, "There is something beyond literature that questions all writing."