Favorite poems

Selected and annotated by Frank Beck

Showing posts with label German poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label German poetry. Show all posts

"dust"

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once the door is shut, even the dogs in their kennels are hushed. air traffic ceases, no mower, no ticking alarm clock, no intrusion. j...
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"Spring has come back again"

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Spring has come back again. The Earth is like a child that’s got poems by heart; so many poems, so many verses, patient toil...
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"What is the moon to us?"

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What is the moon to us, and what do stars mean, to us, or to brows so dark and glowing bright! At the downfall of the most beautiful...

"Bread and Wine"

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Portrait of Hölderlin in 1792 by his friend, Franz Karl Heimer Town rests now, all around, the lit streets quietening;   Carr...

"Stay"

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Ingeborg Bachmann, Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Gunter Grass in Rome Now the journey is ending, the wind is losing heart. Into your...

"Every day"

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Ingeborg Bachmann War is no longer declared, but rather continued. The outrageous has become the everyday. The hero is absent from t...
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I am a New York-based writer and translator. I review poetry for The Manhattan Review and write about music for The Elgar Society Journal. With Raleigh Whitinger, I translated Lou Andreas-Salomé's novel 'Das Haus' ('Anneliese's House' from Boydell & Brewer).
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