These fifty-four poems, spanning four decades, depict a landscape at once recognizably mundane and grotesquely surreal. Grass's spirited humor and linguistic creativity transcend the cant of political poetry. The German originals face the translation. Translated by Michael Hamburger. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book


Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 04/29/1996
ISBN: 9780156003315
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 7.72h x 5.96w x 0.52d

Review Citations: Library Journal 05/15/1996 pg. 65