{"title":"Durs Grünbein","description":"\u003cp\u003eDurs Grünbein's works delve into the intricate intersections of history, memory, and culture, offering profound reflections through a poetic lens. His writings, including titles such as \u003cem\u003eFor the Dying Calves\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePorcelain – Poem on the Downfall of My City\u003c\/em\u003e, navigate themes of urban decay and the passage of time with evocative imagery and philosophical depth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRooted in the realms of \u003cstrong\u003eHistory \u0026amp; Military\u003c\/strong\u003e as well as \u003cstrong\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/strong\u003e, Grünbein's collection challenges readers to contemplate the layers of human experience embedded in the fabric of societies and their transformation. His poetic narrative style blends cultural critique with historical awareness, creating a unique and compelling literary journey.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"for-the-dying-calves-by-durs-grunbein-9780857429544","title":"For the Dying Calves","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoetically written and originally given as lectures, this is a moving essay collection from Durs Grünbein.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn his four Lord Weidenfeld Lectures held in Oxford in 2019, German poet Durs Grünbein dealt with a topic that has occupied his mind ever since he began to perceive his own position within the past of his nation, his linguistic community, and his family: How is it possible that history can determine the individual poetic imagination and segregate it into private niches? Shouldn’t poetry look at the world with its own sovereign eyes instead?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the form of a collage or “photosynthesis,” in image and text, Grünbein lets the fundamental opposition between poetic license and almost overwhelming bondage to history appear in an exemplary way. From the seeming trifle of a stamp with the portrait of Adolf Hitler, he moves through the phenomenon of the “Führer’s streets” and into the inferno of aerial warfare.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the end, Grünbein argues that we are faced with the powerlessness of writing and the realization, valid to this day, that comes from confronting history. As he muses, “There is something beyond literature that questions all writing.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000623612140,"sku":"9780857429544","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/7220973482493.jpg?v=1763290411"},{"product_id":"porcelain-poem-on-the-downfall-of-my-city-by-karen-leeder-9781803091372","title":"Porcelain – Poem on the Downfall of My City","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePorcelain – Poem on the Downfall of My City\u003c\/em\u003e is a book-length cycle of forty-nine poems written over the course of more than a decade. Together, they serve as a lament for Durs Grünbein’s hometown, Dresden, which was destroyed in the Allied firebombing of February 1945.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book is at once a history and a “declaration of love” to the famed “Venice on the Elbe,” so catastrophically razed by British bombs. It is a musical fusion of eyewitness accounts, family memories, and stories, of monuments and relics. The story unfolds as the city’s destiny is seen through a prism of biographical enigmas, with its intimate relation to the “white gold” porcelain that made its fortune and reflections on the power and limits of poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMusical, fractured, ironic, and elegiac, \u003cem\u003ePorcelain\u003c\/em\u003e is controversial in setting itself against what Grünbein calls the “myth” of the Germans as innocent victims of a war crime. At the same time, it never loses sight of the horror deliberately visited on an unwitting civilian population, nor the devastation that looms so large in the German memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublished for the first time in English on the seventy-fifth anniversary of the firebombing, this edition contains new images, notes, Grünbein’s own reflections, and an additional canto—an extraordinary act of poetic \u003cem\u003ekintsugi\u003c\/em\u003e for the fractured remains of Dresden’s memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47464161837292,"sku":"9781803091372","price":31.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781803091372-porcelain-poem-on-the-downfall-of-my-city.jpg?v=1775039031"},{"product_id":"porcelain-by-durs-grunbein-9780857427816","title":"Porcelain","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePorcelain\u003c\/em\u003e is a book-length cycle of forty-nine poems written over the course of more than a decade that together serve as a lament for Durs Grünbein’s hometown, Dresden, which was destroyed in the Allied firebombing of February 1945.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book is at once a history and “declaration of love” to the famed “Venice on the Elbe,” so catastrophically razed by British bombs; a musical fusion of eyewitness accounts, family memories, and stories, of monuments and relics; the story of the city’s destiny as seen through a prism of biographical enigmas, its intimate relation to the “white gold” porcelain that made its fortune and reflections on the power and limits of poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMusical, fractured, ironic, and elegiac, \u003cem\u003ePorcelain\u003c\/em\u003e is controversial, too, in setting itself against what Grünbein calls the “myth” of the Germans as innocent victims of a war crime. At the same time, it never loses sight of the horror deliberately visited on an unwitting civilian population, nor the devastation that looms so large in the German memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublished 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 \u003cem\u003ekintsugi\u003c\/em\u003e for the fractured remains of Dresden’s memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47597524746476,"sku":"9780857427816","price":31.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/018a2dc46423382b98765e831081085c.jpg?v=1777958129"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/durs-grunbein.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}