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  | | Thick of It (The German List) by Ulrike Almut Sandig, Karen Leeder Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2020 by Seagull Books ISBN-13: 978-0-85742-835-6, ISBN: 0-85742-835-7 "The poems of Ulrike Almut Sandig are at once simple and fantastic. This new collection finds her on her way to imaginary territories. Thick of It charts a journey through two hemispheres to “the center of the world” and navigates a “thicket” that is at once the world, the psyche, and language itself. The poems explore an urgently urban reality, but that reality is interwoven with references to nightmares, the Bible, fairy tales, and nur ..." |
 | | High on Low(1st Edition) Harnessing the Power of Unhappiness (Subway Line, No. 8) by Wilhelm Schmid, Karen Leeder Paperback, 106 Pages, Published 2014 by Upper West Side Philosophers, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-1-935830-28-3, ISBN: 1-935830-28-7 "Winner of the 2015 Independent Publisher Book Award for Self Help & Finalist for the 2015 Next Generation Indie Book Award for Self Help. Is not being happy really so bad? In High on Low: Harnessing the Power of Unhappiness, bestselling author Wilhelm Schmid persuasively argues that far from preventing us from living a full and successful life, being unhappy - be it in terms of discontent, melancholy, sadness, or depressive mood - is an ..." |
 | | Last Day of the Year Selected Poems (Excavation Memoirs) by Michael Krüger, Karen Leeder, Richard Dove, Stanley Moss Paperback, 250 Pages, Published 2014 by Sheep Meadow ISBN-13: 978-1-937679-37-8, ISBN: 1-937679-37-3 "This new edition, in German and English, incorporates portions of that book with selections from five later books, translated by Karen Leeder and Richard Dove." |
 | | The Cambridge Companion to Rilke(1st Edition) (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Karen Leeder, Robert Vilain Paperback, 250 Pages, Published 2010 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-70508-0, ISBN: 0-521-70508-8 "Often regarded as the greatest German poet of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 1926) remains one of the most influential figures of European modernism. In this Companion, leading scholars offer informative and thought-provoking essays on his life and social context, his correspondence, all his major collections of poetry including most famously the Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus, and his seminal novel of Modernist a ..." |
 | | Rubble Flora(1st Edition) Selected Poems (The German List) by Volker Braun, David Constantine, Karen Leeder Paperback, 168 Pages, Published 2019 by Seagull Books ISBN-13: 978-0-85742-714-4, ISBN: 0-85742-714-8 "Rubble Flora is a selection of poems from the distinguished, half-century-long career of German poet Volker Braun. Born in the former East Germany, Braun is a humane, witty, brave, and disappointed poet. In the East, his poetry upheld the voice of the individual imagination and identified with a utopian possibility that never became reality. He might be said to have found a truly singular voice amid the colossal upheavals of 1989—explor ..." |
 | | The Sex of the Angels, the Saints in their Heaven(2nd Edition) A Breviary (The German List) by Raoul Schrott, Arnold Mario Dall'o, Karen Leeder Hardcover, 152 Pages, Published 2018 by Seagull Books ISBN-13: 978-0-85742-555-3, ISBN: 0-85742-555-2 "Breviaries, books of standard religious readings for particular denominations, are a familiar genre with a long pedigree. But you've definitely never seen a breviary like this one. The Sex of the Angels is a playful, often ironic take on the breviary in the form of a collection of letters that begins by taking up early Christian cosmology and follows the Biblical mutations of the angel from Babylon to the present day. As it goes along, ..." |
 | | Porcelain Poem on the Downfall of My City (Paperback) by Durs Grünbein, Karen Leeder Paperback, Published 2023 by Seagull Books London Ltd, Greenford ISBN-13: 978-1-80309-137-2, ISBN: 1-80309-137-1 "Published for the first time in English, on the seventy-fifth year anniversary of the firebombing, this edition contains new images, notes, Grünbein's own reflections, and an additional canto--an extraordinary act of poetic kintsugi for ..." |
 | | For the Dying Calves Beyond Literature: Oxford Lectures (The German List) [Hardcover ] by Durs Grünbein, Karen Leeder Hardcover, 164 Pages, Published 2021 by Seagull Books ISBN-13: 978-0-85742-954-4, ISBN: 0-85742-954-X "Poetically written and originally given as lectures, this is a moving essay collection from Durs Grünbein." |
 | | The Cambridge Companion to Rilke (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Karen Leeder, Robert Vilain Hardcover, 250 Pages, Published 2010 by Cambridge University Press Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-521-87943-9, ISBN: 0-521-87943-4 "Often regarded as the greatest German poet of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 1926) remains one of the most influential figures of European modernism. In this Companion, leading scholars offer informative and thought-provoking essays on his life and social context, his correspondence, all his major collections of poetry including most famously the Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus, and his seminal novel of Modernist a ..." |
 | | Empedocles' Shoe (Plays and Playwrights) by Deceased Bertolt Brecht, Tom Kuhn, Karen J. Leeder, Ronald Speirs, Karen Leeder, David Constantine, Empedocles' Shoe- Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2002 by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama ISBN-13: 978-0-413-75730-2, ISBN: 0-413-75730-7 "This volume arises from a seminar held at Oxford University in 1998 to mark the centenary of Brecht's birth and includes seminal contributions from leading critics. It sheds new light on individual poems as well as giving an overview of Brecht's poetry from the earliest days to the GDR years. Here are Brecht poems in parallel translation as well as translations and original poems by major poets such as Tom Paulin, Jamie McKendrick, Dere ..." |
 | | I Am a Field Full of Rapeseed, Give Cover to Deer and Shine Like Thirteen Oil Paintings Laid One on Top of the Other(1st Edition) (The German List) by Ulrike Almut Sandig, Karen Leeder Hardcover, 80 Pages, Published 2020 by Seagull Books ISBN-13: 978-0-85742-737-3, ISBN: 0-85742-737-7 "“we find ourselves deep in the future of fairy tale. we are the offspring of our own imaginings.” Ulrike Almut Sandig’s second volume of poems to be translated into English is a journey through a world that is imaginary yet entirely recognizable. Precise observation of the concrete is mixed with playful humor, inspired musicality, and an anxious reckoning with undercurrents of violence. Borrowing from the Brothers Grimm, the collectio ..." |
 | | Postscript by Michael Krüger, Karen Leeder Paperback, 168 Pages, Published 2019 by Sheep Meadow Press ISBN-13: 978-1-937679-88-0, ISBN: 1-937679-88-8 ""Michael Krüger's book, Einmal Einfach, presented in both English and the native German with Karen Leeder's translation"--" |
 | | Thick of It(1st Edition) (The German List) by Ulrike Almut Sandig, Karen Leeder Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 2018 by Seagull Books ISBN-13: 978-0-85742-556-0, ISBN: 0-85742-556-0 "The poems of Ulrike Almut Sandig are at once simple and fantastic. This new collection finds her on her way to imaginary territories. Thick of It charts a journey through two hemispheres to “the center of the world” and navigates a “thicket” that is at once the world, the psyche, and language itself. The poems explore an urgently urban reality, but that reality is interwoven with references to nightmares, the Bible, fairy tales, and nur ..." |
 | | Selected Poems Evelyn Schlag by Evelyn Schlag, Karen Leeder Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2004 by Carcanet Press Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-85754-652-1, ISBN: 1-85754-652-0 "The prize-winning Austrian poet and novelist Evelyn Schlag has one of the most distinctive and subtle voices in contemporary German-language writing. Among her most recent poems are the Summer Elegies, published to much acclaim in Austria in 2002. These, with selections from her earlier work, are included, with an introduction by Karen Leeder and a full interview with the poet. Schlag uses the term 'elegy' in the same spirit as Ovid doe ..." |
 | | Rubble Flora Selected Poems (Seagull Books - The German List) by Volker Braun, David Constantine, Karen Leeder, Karen J. Leeder Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 2014 by Seagull Books ISBN-13: 978-0-85742-218-7, ISBN: 0-85742-218-9 ""Rubble Flora"is a selection of poems from the distinguished, half-century-long career of German poet Volker Braun. Born in the former East Germany, Braun is a humane, witty, brave, and disappointed poet. In the East, his poetry upheld the voice of the individual imagination and identified with a utopian possibility that never became reality. He might be said to have found a truly singular voice amid the colossal upheavals of 1989explor ..." |
 | | Rereading East Germany(1st Edition) The Literature and Film of the GDR by Karen Leeder Hardcover, 274 Pages, Published 2016 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-107-00636-2, ISBN: 1-107-00636-8 "This volume is the first to address the culture of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) as a historical entity, but also to trace the afterlife of East Germany in the decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall. An international team of outstanding scholars offers essential and thought-provoking essays, combining a chronological and genre-based overview from the beginning of the GDR in 1949 to the unification in 1990 and beyond, with in-d ..." |
 | | Rereading East Germany The Literature and Film of the GDR by Karen Leeder Published 2016 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-316-46239-3, ISBN: 1-316-46239-0 "between GDR and post-unification texts.48 The influence of Morgner's complex, multi-genre approach and Braun's linguistic experimentation and grotesque societal critiques can be seen, for example, in Kerstin Hensel's Tanz am Kanal ( Dance on the Canal, 2004) and Lärchenau (2008), as well as Kathrin ... The Eulenspiegel author and editor Reinhard Ulbrich described his satirical novel Spur der Broiler (Trace of Grilled Chicken, 1998) ..." |
 | | The Brecht Yearbook / Das Brecht-Jahrbuch, Volume 30(1st Edition) Who Was Ruth Berlau? / Wer War Ruth Berlau? by Stephen Brockmann, Intl Brecht Society, Karen Leeder, Jurgen Hillesheim Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2005 by University Of Wisconsin Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9718963-3-8, ISBN: 0-9718963-3-X "One of the most controversial aspects of Brecht scholarship in the last two decades has been Brecht’s relationship with the many women in his life. Who Was Ruth Berlau? is devoted primarily to the life and work of Bertolt Brecht’s collaborator and lover Ruth Berlau, the Danish actress and journalist who accompanied Brecht and his family on their epic journey from Finland across the Soviet Union and the Pacific Ocean, as Brecht sou ..." |
 | | The Beast by Michael Kruger Published 2000 by See Notes ISBN-13: 978-0-9524501-9-1, ISBN: 0-9524501-9-4 |
 | | The Cambridge Companion to Rilke by Karen Leeder, Robert Vilain Published 2010 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-139-82826-0, ISBN: 1-139-82826-6 "Stefan Zweig - Robert Musil Long before this philosophical interest, however, Rilke's poetic vision provoked sophisticated responses among his contemporaries. Perhaps the most penetrating early account of the New Poems is Stefan Zweig's review in the Literary Echo (Das literarische Echo) at the end of 1908. Observing a transition from musicality to plasticity via certain painterly qualities in The Book of Images (1902, 1906), Zweig ..." |
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