{"product_id":"the-gallows-songs-9781681379456","title":"The Gallows Songs","description":"\u003cb\u003eA collection of dazzling, playful, and linguistically inventive poetry by one of Germany's finest writers, in a classic translation that honors the author's amazing verbal acrobatics.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChristian Morgenstern's \u003ci\u003eThe Gallows Songs\u003c\/i\u003e are some of the most delightful and imaginative creations of twentieth-century German poetry. Composed originally after an outing Morgenstern took with his friends to Gallows Hill near Potsdam, these lively, puckish poems envision Gallows Hill as a fantastical world populated with fabulous animals, bizarre mechanisms, and some truly unruly punctuation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMorgenstern felt that people often used their familiar language unthinkingly, without ever pausing to marvel at the glorious arbitrariness of words. Through poems chock-full of irresistible wordplay and unabashedly exuberant rhymes, he invites us to meditate--but also to med-it-nine and med-i-ten--on all the incidents and accidents of language that make the world of words so vibrant. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTrue to the spirit of Morgenstern's linguistic mischief, Max Knight's translation sparkles with uncommon wit as it reinvents in English Morgenstern's daring verbal acrobatics, and is itself a feat of poetic genius.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/29\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781681379456\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"Christian Morgenstern","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45439138529461,"sku":"9781681379456","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_acf99d4b-5ef6-4390-a99a-de2f8164f4e1.jpg?v=1749003630","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-gallows-songs-9781681379456","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}