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Title: Rubble Flora: Selected Poems
Author: BRAUN VOLKER
Illustrator: CONSTANTIN DAVD/LEEDER KAREN (TRS)
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 25/10/2019
Imprint: SEAGULL BOOKS
Price: $25.00
Publishing status: Active
iving in the former communist East Germany, Volker Braun upheld the voice of the individual imagination and identified with a utopian possibility that never became reality. He found a singular voice amid the upheavals of 1989 – exploring the triumph of capitalism and the languages of advertising, terror, politics and war. At the same time, Braun is a sensual poet in tune with the natural landscape. Many of his poems set quotations from Rimbaud, Shakespeare and Brecht into his own context, where they work as ironic illuminations of a present plight. Cumulatively, Rubble Flora, which collects half a century of Braun’s poetry, offers a searing vision of the last few transformative decades.
Author Biography: Volker Braun is the author of numerous plays, works of fiction, volumes of poetry, and essays. David Constantine is a writer and translator. Karen Leeder is a writer and translator. She teaches German at New College, Oxford.
ISBN: 9780857427144
Dimension: 203mm X 127mm