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Gottfried Benn - Impromptus (Paperback, Main)
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Gottfried Benn - Impromptus (Paperback, Main)
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The first poem in Gottfried Benn's first book, Morgue (1912) -
written in an hour, published in a week, and notorious ever after,
or so the poet claimed - with its scandalous closing image of an
aster sewn into a corpse by a playful medical student, set him on
his celebrated path. And indeed, mortality, flowers, and powerful
aesthetic collisions typify much of Benn's subsequent work. Over
decades, as he suffered the vicissitudes of an often hostile fate -
the death of his mother from untreated cancer; the death of his
first wife Edith in 1922; his brief but disastrous attempt to
ingratiate himself with the Nazis in 1933, followed by their
persecution of him; the suicide of his second wife Herta in 1945,
afraid she would fall into the hands of the Russians - the harsh,
sometimes callous voice of the poems relented, softened, and
mellowed. The later Benn - from which Impromptus is chiefly drawn,
many of the poems translated into English for the first time - is
deeply affecting: the routines and sorrows and meditations of an
intelligent, pessimistic, and experienced man. Written in what T.
S. Eliot called the 'third voice' of poetry, the low un-upholstered
monologue of the poet talking to himself, these poems are slender
ribbons of speech on the naked edge of song and silence. With this
new collection of poems selected and translated by Michael Hofmann,
Gottfired Benn, at long last, promises to attain in English the
presence and importance that he so richly deserves.
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