Gunter Grass's international fame as a novelist has tended to
obscure his achievements in poetry, but his first book was a
collection of poems and he has returned faithfully to the medium
throughout his writing life. All his preoccupations - social,
sexual, moral, gastronomical - are found there, as is the unique
mixture of expressionistic grotesquerie and political outspokenness
that has characterised his fiction. It is this mixture, as Michael
Hamburger, Grass's most constant and sympathetic translator, points
out, that has allowed him to act as court jester to the post-war
German democratic state, 'telling disagreeable truths'. Selected
Poems 1956-1993 encapsulates one of the defining poetic oeuvres of
our time.
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